Der Standard
14/01/2014
Original text: German
This is indicated by the Green Party chairwoman in the Lower Austrian parliament, Helga Krismer."By this reaction, many environmental problems could be avoided and citizens have their rights," said Green Party politician, who now calls appropriate arrangements for Lower Austria.Also environmental organizations such as Global 2000 had in recent months - the poor implementation of the Convention complains - in connection with the HCB scandal in Carinthia.
International sat there been complaints: Even the free access of citizens to justice for violations of environmental law of the state and private (Article 9) is in fact still open, put the Aarhus Committee in Geneva already fixed in 2012.
The 5th Conference of the Parties on 30 June 2014, these complaints was finally confirmed - and Austria committed to ongoing reporting on the implementation steps. On July 11, 2014 Austria received a warning letter from the European Commission.
