{"id":482916,"date":"2026-06-04T15:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/482916\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:45:11","slug":"european-commission-takes-ireland-to-court-for-peat-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/482916\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission takes Ireland to court for peat cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Commission is referring Ireland to the ECJ, claiming enforcement action is not being taken over peat cutting.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement it says the country has failed to implement the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive.<\/p>\n<p>Although it acknowledges Ireland has taken steps to halt peat cutting, it says it\u2019s aware there is sill significant activity which is not subject to planning permission.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission claims enforcement action at local level is not taking place and has therefore referred Ireland to the European Court of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission is referring Ireland to the ECJ, claiming enforcement action is not being taken over peat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-482916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}