The European Commission is calling for evidence and consulting until 14 November 2025 on the scope and content of its revision of the Guidelines on State aid for rescuing and restructuring...

William Fry LLP was pleased to act for Tesco Ireland Limited in its successful defence of a judicial review challenge to its grant of planning permission for a new Tesco store...

While 2021 has seen a focus on climate change like never before, the wider topic of sustainability and the integration of sustainability-related risks is also high on the regulatory agenda for banks and investment firms .

Together with the other European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs), EIOPA recently published its final report on greenwashing. The report reiterated the ESAs common high-level of understanding...

The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications ("DECC") hosted an online Industry Workshop and Q&A session today to provide insight into the Maritime Area Planning ("MAP") Bill.

On 23 June 2025, the Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Andrew Muir MLA, formally introduced his renewed ‘Dilapidations Bill' before the Northern Ireland Assembly.

The Council of the European Union (the “Council”) has approved the amended European Climate Law (the “European Climate Law”) and published Regulation (EU) 2026/667 (the “Regulation”) in respect of the 2040 intermediate climate target. The European Climate Law, with direct effect in Ireland, was first adopted in 2021 and established the EU’s long-term climate policy framework in line with the Paris Agreement.

In a judgment issued on 25 July 2018, the CJEU followed the earlier Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev and held that although measures in a management plan would at a minimum maintain and also potentially increase...

The European Commission ("Commission") has published a number of legislative proposals and supporting documents with a view to further developing the EU sustainable finance framework.

The EU Green Bonds Regulation will be directly effective in Ireland from 21 December 2024.

In November 2021, Ireland's Climate Action Plan was finally published which sets out in detail how Ireland is going to take action to achieve firstly, a 51% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and secondly, ...

The Government is consulting until 20 April 2023 on the Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan II ("OREDP II").

As Ireland grapples with rising electricity demand from data centres and AI infrastructure while pursuing decarbonisation goals, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) have emerged as a potential solution to provide reliable...

Although Judges have full discretion, the general rule in court cases in Ireland is that the loser pays the winner’s legal costs.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is beginning to provide tangible guidance to financial institutions as to how climate change and environmental risks should be managed within an organisation.

On Monday (6 January 2020), the Government published the Draft General Scheme of the Climate Action (Amendment) Bill 2019 (the "General Scheme"),

On 25 May 2022, the European Supervisory Authorities ("ESAs") published the European Commission's ("Commission") responses to their questions related to the implementation...

A new infrastructure plan based on recommendations from the Accelerating Infrastructure Taskforce is due to go to cabinet today.

On 30 June 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") published its Final Report on the common supervisory action ("CSA") it carried out during 2023 and 2024...

The publication marks a pivotal moment in the Government's plans to develop the State's biomethane sector. The Government, as proposed in the Climate Action Plan, intend this sector...