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EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW SERIES (EPLS)The European Public Law Series is a special edition of the European Review of Public Law constituted of a series of books, monographs and essays purporting to contribute, through research or re ection thereby taking place, to the creation of a European public law - in particular through the systematic study of the different aspects of national legal systems in the Member States of the European Union,in the European Union itself, as well as of their evolution and their convergence. The following volumes appeared during the reported period: Publicparticipation inplanning proceduresis a topic ofpolitical debate inmany Europeancountries. Althoughthere is somecommon groundin the Conventionon Access toInformation,Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, known as Aarhus Convention, and in theEU Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive, the national rules on participation are quite divergent and often dif cult to nd. This book provides a collection of national reports covering ten European countries (the six largest Member States of the EUand four other countries with particular legal traditions: Austria, France, Germany, Italy,The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom) and a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences in the respective legal orders.In order to nd a compromise between the respect for the national roots of all legalorders and the accessibility of the collected information, the three major languages in the EU, English, German and French were chosen. Therefore only half of the contributors had to write in a foreign language. All national reports include an abstract in English and further references.Thomas Gross studied law in Tübingen, Geneva and Heidelberg, where he received his doctorate and habilitation. After being professor in Giessen and Frankfurt/Main, he is now professor of public law, European law and comparative law in the European Legal Studies Institute of the University Osnabrück. He is a member of the European Group of Public Law since 1999. The European Public Law Organization (EPLO) and the University of East Sarajevo (more precisely its Faculty of Law) decidedto publish this collection of papers on public law inVol. CXIV, Thomas Gross (ed.), Public Participation in Infrastructure Planning - Comparative Analysis of 10 European CountriesVol. CXV, G. Marković (ed.), Public Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Trends and ChallengesACTIVITY REPORT 2016 145