North Runway Technical Group

Submissions + Annexes

DUBLIN, 2 March 2026. The North Runway Technical Group (NRTG), a voluntary group with aviation and engineering expertise, including current and former airline pilots, has today filed three simultaneous complaints with European institutions over Ireland’s treatment of environmental law at Dublin Airport.

The complaints, filed with the European Commission, the European Parliament Petitions Committee, and the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee, allege that Ireland is in breach of six EU instruments covering environmental impact assessment, noise regulation, airport noise competent authority independence, aerodrome safety, air navigation procedures, and public participation rights. The complaints document a pattern in which every regulatory body that has attempted to enforce any environmental constraint on Dublin Airport has been met with either High Court litigation by the airport operator or legislation by the Government to remove the constraint.

The EU filings follow a detailed submission to the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, filed last week as part of the Committee’s pre-legislative scrutiny of the Dublin Airport (Passenger Capacity) Bill 2026. NRTG has requested a public hearing before the Committee.

A comprehensive supporting dossier accompanied our European Commission complaint with full analysis of all six EU law breaches. Our Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee communication references the same annexes as the dossier.

The 69 supporting annexes included in the zip archive below are organised by category and referenced by alphanumeric code in the dossier and the communication.

Supplementary submissions have been made to both the European Commission and the Aarhus Committee as additional facts have come to light. These are listed below.

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