Bloomberg News reported on the 11th (local time) that Hungary's Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that had canceled the environmental certification for the Samsung SDI battery plant in Göd, Hungary.
Local authorities said, "With the Supreme Court ruling, the environmental certification for the Samsung SDI plant in Hungary has become valid again." They did not explain the specific details of the ruling.
Earlier, in Oct. last year, a Hungarian court accepted a civic group's claim that the government had granted environmental certification to the Samsung SDI plant without considering years of ongoing noise and pollution, and canceled all related permits.
Meanwhile, Samsung SDI pursued a plant expansion even as the lawsuit continued last year, and government authorities accepted all of it, sparking controversy locally. The Hungarian government has supported tax cuts, infrastructure, and subsidies to attract Asian corporations. Samsung SDI has been producing batteries in Hungary since 2017.