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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'

More than half of the 28 countries in the European Union, including Germany and France, have decided to ban their farmers from growing genetically modified crops. Environmental groups long opposed to…
The article deals with a judgement of the European Court of Justice, whereby Germany has failed to fulfil the obligations of the Directives on Environmental Impact Assessment and on Industrial…
Hungary plans to expand its nuclear power plant Paks from four to six blocks. Representatives of the neighbouring Green Party in Germy are preparing a complain to the UN Aarhus Committee against the…