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WELCOME TO THE AARHUS CLEARINGHOUSE
Welcome to the Aarhus Clearinghouse for Environmental Democracy.
This web portal showcases information on laws and practices relevant to the public's right to:
• access environmental information
• participate in environmental decision-making, and
• achieve justice on environmental matters

The Aarhus Clearinghouse provides information relevant to the implementation of Principle 10 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development at the global and regional level, as well as national levels all over the world. It also facilitates the collection, dissemination and exchange of information related to the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (in short: Aarhus Convention).

LATEST NEWS & RESOURCES 'confidentiality of commercial and industrial information'

The Austrian umbrella organization ?Umweltdachverband? massively criticizes the draft Federal law on the implementation of a trans-European energy infrastructure. The organization fears a lack of…
The article presents a legal precedent for rights of environmental organizations which is an important milestone in the general improvement of environmental law protection and the implementation of…
The Upper Tribunal in the UK decided that private water and sewage companies are public authorities for the purposes of the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 by the virtue of the special…