Skip to main content

Resources 'Article 6: Public Participation in Decisions on Specific Activities'

Effective remedies - Members of the public concerned must be able to ask the court to suspend a challenged permit during the review procedure.
The objective of the meeting organized by DMB UNDESA was to bring together policy-makers, experts, and practitioners on eparticipation from around the world, with the purpose of enhancing their…
The article presents various environmental court cases of European Union (EU). It focuses on the Aarhus Convention, a multilateral environmental agreement which provides citizens an access to…
The ECHR held unanimously that the right to respect for private and family life (art. 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights) and the right for protection of property (art. 1 of Protocol No. 1…
The newly launched webpage of Environmental Law Research Center (ELRC) of Faculty of Law, Yerevan State University is a dynamic and open academic source sharing material. It provides comprehensive…
The New Year marks new aspirations for environmental impact assessments in Ukraine: amendments to the Law of Ukraine “On Regulating Urban Development Activities” (in force from January 5th, 2013)…
The decision of the Parliament of Ukraine on the construction of the 3rd and 4th blocks of the Khmelnytska nuclear power plant caused indignation in many countries. However, the Belarusian public was…
On September 1, 2012 the Energy Community Secretariat made public an Annual Report on the Implementation of the Aquis according to the Treaty establishing the Energy Community. The report analyzes…
Public concerned and omission by public authority – A decision of a supervisory authority not to intervene in a certain activity (a so-called 0-decision) can be appealed and its substance can be…
The public interest and the scope of environmental impact assessment –Individuals, who are affected by a local development plan are able to invoke the public interest to advocate their cause. An…