Lahti plans to appeal the Teboil site decision to the Supreme Administrative Court

Two green-headed and one black-headed fuel gun hanging in place at a gas station. — The City of Lahti has a total of four sites leased to Teboil. The lease on two of them would have expired, but Teboil took the matter to the Administrative Court, claiming that it had been treated unfairly.

The City of Lahti is dissatisfied with the decision of the Hämeenlinna Administrative Court in Teboil’s appeal against the non-renewal of the lease agreements for the plots.

The City of Lahti intends to take the dispute over the termination of the lease agreements for Teboil plots to the Supreme Administrative Court. Teboil appealed to the Administrative Court of Hämeenlinna against the City’s decision not to extend the lease of two plots of land to the company in 2022.

Lahti justified the non-renewal of the leases on the grounds that it did not want to potentially support Russia’s war of aggression through the Russian-owned Teboil. The city also cited potential financial risks.

The Hämeelinna Administrative Court annulled the decisions. It held, inter alia, that the Lahti City Environment Committee, which had taken the decisions, had no jurisdiction in the matter.

However, the Helsinki Administrative Court has given a quite different solution six months earlier in a similar dispute in Loviisa. The Helsinki Administrative Court considered, among other things, that the Loviisa City Council could not be considered to have exceeded its authority based on the arguments presented in the appeal.

On January 22, it will be submitted to the Lahti Urban Environment Committee that the city will appeal the decisions of the Hämeenlinna Administrative Court to the Supreme Administrative Court.