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Ruimtelijke or<strong>de</strong>ning<br />

83<br />

sition will be changed so as to exclu<strong>de</strong> any judges<br />

who participated in that <strong>op</strong>inion.<br />

has been no violation of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention.<br />

198. The Court is not as confi<strong>de</strong>nt as the Government<br />

were in their statement during the parliamentary<br />

budgetary discussions in 2000 that these arrangements<br />

are such as to ensure that in all appeals<br />

coming before it the Administrative Jurisdiction Division<br />

constitutes an ‘impartial tribunal’ for the purposes<br />

of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention. It is not,<br />

however, the task of the Court to rule in the abstract<br />

on the compatibility of the Netherlands system in<br />

this respect with the Convention. The issue before<br />

the Court is w<strong>het</strong>her, as regards the appeals<br />

brought by the present applicants, it was compatible<br />

with the requirement of the ‘objective’ impartiality<br />

of a tribunal un<strong>de</strong>r Article 6 § 1 that the Council<br />

of State’s institutional structure had allowed certain<br />

of its Ordinary Councillors to exercise both advisory<br />

and judicial functions.<br />

199. In the present case the Plenary Council of<br />

State advised on the Transport Infrastructure Planning<br />

Bill (Tracéwet, red.), which laid down draft<br />

procedural rules for the <strong>de</strong>cision-making process for<br />

the supra-regional planning of new major transport<br />

infrastructure. The applicants’ appeals, however,<br />

were directed against the Routing Decision, which<br />

is a <strong>de</strong>cision taken on the basis of the procedure<br />

provi<strong>de</strong>d for in the Transport Infrastructure Planning<br />

Act. Earlier appeals against the Outline Planning<br />

Decision are not at issue as they were based on a<br />

different legal framework.<br />

200. The Court is of the <strong>op</strong>inion that, unlike the situation<br />

examined by it in the above-cited cases of<br />

Procola v. Luxembourg and McGonnell v. the United<br />

Kingdom, the advisory <strong>op</strong>inions given on the<br />

Transport Infrastructure Planning Bill and the subsequent<br />

proceedings on the appeals brought against<br />

the Routing Decision cannot be regar<strong>de</strong>d as involving<br />

‘the same case’ or ‘the same <strong>de</strong>cision’.<br />

202. In these circumstances, the Court is of the<br />

<strong>op</strong>inion that the applicants’ fears as to a lack of in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nce<br />

and impartiality of the Administrative<br />

Jurisdiction Division, due to the composition of the<br />

bench that heard their appeals, cannot be regar<strong>de</strong>d<br />

as being objectively justified. Consequently, there<br />

Noot: Het hof oor<strong>de</strong>el<strong>de</strong> niet unaniem. Er zijn twee<br />

afwijken<strong>de</strong> (‘dissenting’) meningen en één concurreren<strong>de</strong><br />

(‘concurring’) mening.<br />

03-73<br />

Uitspraak <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> Af<strong>de</strong>ling bestuursrechtspraak<br />

<strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> Raad <strong>van</strong> State <strong>van</strong> 7 mei 2003, nr.<br />

200203014/1, inzake <strong>het</strong> bestemmingsplan ‘Herziening<br />

8 <strong>van</strong> <strong>het</strong> bestemmingsplan Buiten<strong>gebied</strong><br />

1996’ <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> gemeente Ensche<strong>de</strong>.<br />

De fax met be<strong>de</strong>nkingen <strong>van</strong> appellant is na<br />

24.00 uur <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> laatste dag <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> terinzageleggingstermijn<br />

ont<strong>van</strong>gen. De be<strong>de</strong>nkingen zijn dus<br />

buiten <strong>de</strong> wettelijke termijn ingediend. De Af<strong>de</strong>ling<br />

acht echter <strong>de</strong> stelling <strong>van</strong> appellant geloofwaardig<br />

dat hij kort vóór <strong>het</strong> verstrijken <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> termijn<br />

driemaal heeft gepoogd om zijn be<strong>de</strong>nkingen per<br />

faxbericht bij verweer<strong>de</strong>r in te dienen. Voorts blijkt<br />

uit <strong>de</strong> stukken dat appellant bij zijn vier<strong>de</strong> poging,<br />

na <strong>het</strong> verstrijken <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> termijn, een an<strong>de</strong>r faxnummer<br />

<strong>van</strong> verweer<strong>de</strong>r heeft gebruikt en dat <strong>de</strong>ze<br />

poging direct slaag<strong>de</strong>. Hieraan kan <strong>het</strong> vermoe<strong>de</strong>n<br />

wor<strong>de</strong>n ontleend dat <strong>het</strong> niet slagen <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> eerste<br />

drie pogingen <strong>van</strong> appellant vóór <strong>het</strong> verstrijken<br />

<strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong> termijn is te wijten aan een gebrek <strong>van</strong> <strong>het</strong><br />

ont<strong>van</strong>gen<strong>de</strong> faxapparaat <strong>van</strong> verweer<strong>de</strong>r. De termijnoverschrijding<br />

is daardoor verschoonbaar.<br />

Algemene wet bestuursrecht, artikel 3:2<br />

Wet <strong>op</strong> <strong>de</strong> Ruimtelijke Or<strong>de</strong>ning, artikelen 26 en<br />

27, lid 1<br />

2.5. Appellant voert aan dat verweer<strong>de</strong>r ten onrechte<br />

goedkeuring aan <strong>het</strong> plan heeft verleend, aangezien<br />

volgens hem bij <strong>het</strong> bestre<strong>de</strong>n besluit zijn<br />

tegen <strong>het</strong> plan ingebrachte be<strong>de</strong>nkingen ten onrechte<br />

buiten beschouwing zijn gelaten. Hij stelt primair<br />

dat zijn be<strong>de</strong>nkingen binnen <strong>de</strong> daarvoor gestel<strong>de</strong><br />

termijn zijn ingediend en subsidiair dat een eventuele<br />

overschrijding <strong>van</strong> <strong>de</strong>ze termijn verschoonbaar<br />

moet wor<strong>de</strong>n geacht.<br />

NIEUWSBRIEF <strong>StAB</strong> 3 / 2003

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