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The Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America has just released a report "Taking Stock: North American Pollutant Releases and Transfers" analysing the data on pollutant…
Marking the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the Aarhus Convention, the fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties is organized at the kind invitation of the Government of the Republic…
Tbilisi is the first capital city in the Eastern Partnership countries of the EU to sign the Covenant of Mayors and together with other important obligations, the city become responsible for…
On 22 March 2011, the General Court of the European Union found that the Council of the EU wrongly refused to disclose the identity of countries taking positions on reform of the EU’s access to…
Further to a reference for a preliminary ruling, the Court ruled that "Article 9(3) of the Aarhus Convention does not have direct effect in EU law. It is, however, for the referring court to…
Those countries that ratified the Aarhus Convention, and the European Union, committed themselves to promote the application of the principles of the Convention in international environmental…
NGO standing (art. 2.5, 9.2) – The Administrative Appeals Court of Schleswig granted an environmental NGO standing to appeal a zoning plan, stating that EU Directive 2003/35/EC was directly…
Legal standing of environmental associations and their local branches.
A group of members of parliament claimed that the regulations on use and building of a particular territory in the capital of Latvia were contrary to art. 115 of the Constitution of the Republic of…
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…
