Resources 'Article 4: Access to Environmental Information'
Access to environmental information (art 4) - The French Conseil d’Etat decided that it was illegal to refuse access to the document merely because it was of preliminary nature and would be preceded…
Access to a report on the analysis of potential ”nuclear passives” of nuclear sites and installations in Belgium may not be refused for reasons of public security, public order, confidentiality of…
Charges for supplying environmental information - such charges should include only other costs that do not arise from the establishment and maintenance of the registers, lists and facilities for…
Request for environmental information may be refused - The Court found that no full disclosure was called for studies that "had already been placed in a file relating to the pre-litigation stage of…
Access to product information - Interpretation of the obligation under the REACH Regulation to provide information on the presence of a substance of very high concern in an article. The main question…
Access to information - Two cumulative conditions must be fulfilled for disclosure of the external experts names who made certain comments on the draft of the guidance document for applicants who…
Definition of environmental information (art. 2.3) - The Court of First Instance accepted that the European Council refused to grant WWF access to preliminary papers on the Cancun negotiations on the…
Public access to information in decision-making procedure on specific activities serving national defence purposes.
Access to information - The fact that some pieces of information contained in the files of an unfinished project may be considered as “provisional” should not be interpreted as if they were “…
Access to information – Court upheld citizen’s claim against the Environment Protection Department of the town of Hudjand following its refusal to provide information on the environment impact of a…




