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The Malta Environment and Planning Authority and the Austrian Environment Agency have compiled tailored guidelines on the rights and obligations related to the Aarhus Convention. These guidelines offer practical and tailored advice for the public to ensure that public authorities are accountable for environmental decisions.
The guidelines were presented during a seminar organized for NGOs, local councils and the public. They inform these stakeholders on their right to obtain environmental information, to participate in environmental decision-making and to access mechanisms of judicial redress in environmental matters, in case enforcement of rights under the Convention are in question.
The guidelines discuss what environmental information can be requested by the public, and how it is to be made available by public authorities.
Further information on the guidelines can be found on the Malta Environment and Planning Authority’s website: www.mepa.org.mt.
[Source: The Malta Independent Online, http://www.independent.com.mt]http://www.independent.com.mt
The guidelines were presented during a seminar organized for NGOs, local councils and the public. They inform these stakeholders on their right to obtain environmental information, to participate in environmental decision-making and to access mechanisms of judicial redress in environmental matters, in case enforcement of rights under the Convention are in question.
The guidelines discuss what environmental information can be requested by the public, and how it is to be made available by public authorities.
Further information on the guidelines can be found on the Malta Environment and Planning Authority’s website: www.mepa.org.mt.
[Source: The Malta Independent Online, http://www.independent.com.mt]http://www.independent.com.mt
