Environment and agriculture

This chart follows, year by year, the number of decisions issued on environment and agriculture at each level of the administrative courts, and the share they represent among all decisions. This volume measures judicial output and is not the same as the number of cases filed in the same year: a case may be decided months, or even years, after it was filed.

The number of decisions on environment and agriculture went from 2,613 in 2023 to 2,333 in 2025. This subject accounts for 0.84% of all administrative court decisions in 2025 (1.2% in 2024). It accounts for 0.65% of the decisions of the administrative tribunals, 1.8% of the decisions of the courts of appeal and 3.5% of the decisions of the Conseil d'État.

• Administrative tribunals
• Administrative courts of appeal
• Conseil d'État

Series start in 2023, the first full year in which the administrative tribunals and courts of appeal published their decisions. Share: that of the subject among all decisions of the year.

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The table lists the courts that issued at least one decision on environment and agriculture in 2025. For each of them it gives the number of decisions and the share the subject represents among all its decisions, then, where the number of decisions allows it, the dismissal rate and the median time to judgment. Each court links to its own page.

In 2025, 40 administrative tribunals, 9 administrative courts of appeal and the Conseil d'État issued at least one decision on environment and agriculture. Among the administrative tribunals, the Tribunal administratif de Grenoble (88 decisions), the Tribunal administratif de Bordeaux (82) and the Tribunal administratif de Rennes (80) issued the largest numbers; together they account for 16% of the tribunals' decisions on this subject. Among the courts of appeal, the Cour administrative d'appel de Bordeaux issued the largest number (105). No administrative tribunal reaches 200 decisions on this subject in the year: the dismissal rate and the median time are shown for any of them.

Share of caseload: share of the subject among all the decisions of the court. Dismissal rate not computed below 200 decisions of the court on the subject; median time: judgments only, excluding orders, not computed below 200 judgments. Below 200 decisions in the year, a court only has its number of decisions.

See also Justice in France: all courts

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Time to judgment is the time between the filing of the application and the judgment. It is summarised by the median: half of the cases are decided faster, the other half more slowly. For environment and agriculture, times are shown for each court level, with the quartiles and the spread of judgments over bands of duration, provided the level has at least 200 judgments in the year.

In 2025, an administrative tribunal judgment on environment and agriculture comes a median of 25 months after filing: a quarter of the cases are decided in less than 16 months, a quarter wait more than 31 months. This median is the same as in 2024. This median time is above the median of all subjects before the administrative tribunals (7 months). Before the administrative courts of appeal, the median time is 21 months (22 months in 2024). Before the Conseil d'État, the median time is 10 months (as in 2024).

• Administrative tribunals25 monthsmedian time
• Administrative courts of appeal21 monthsmedian time
• Conseil d'État10 monthsmedian time

See also Tribunal administratif de Grenoble Tribunal administratif de Bordeaux times for each court

Judgments only, excluding orders (summary proceedings), counted from the first application filed, in completed months. Time not computed for a court level below 200 judgments in the year.

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The outcome sums up what the decision does: the claim is dismissed, it is granted in whole or in part, or the case ends without the court having to rule on the merits. On appeal and in cassation, a dismissal leaves the contested decision in place, whether the appeal came from the individual or from the public body: the dismissal rate alone does not say who wins the case. For environment and agriculture, the breakdown is given for each court level.

Before the administrative tribunals, 65% of the decisions on environment and agriculture with a stated outcome dismiss the claim, against 57% for all subjects together, and the dismissal rate is up 5 points compared with 2024. The contested act is annulled or the claim granted in 27% of the decisions; withdrawals and “no need to rule” decisions, which end the case without a ruling on the merits, account for 6%. The dismissal rate is 67% before the administrative courts of appeal and 80% before the Conseil d'État.

Decisions with a stated and classified outcome, excluding interim decisions (expert report, investigation). For each court level, the breakdown is given from 200 decisions in the year; below that, it is not shown.

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The decisions of the administrative courts are divided here into 16 categories, one of which is “other matters”, according to the legal texts cited in each decision. The table gives the volume of the other categories in 2025; each row links to its page.

In 2025, the administrative courts issued 279,322 decisions, divided among 16 categories; environment and agriculture accounts for 2,333 (0.84%). The categories with the most decisions, apart from “other matters”, are immigration (111,932), tax (11,968), housing (11,393) and social welfare (10,925). Among the subjects with at least 1,000 decisions before the administrative tribunals, the median time ranges from 3 months for immigration to 27 months for tax.

Subject determined from the legal texts cited in each decision; “other matters” groups decisions without a characteristic text.

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