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Resources Year '2003'

This document contains the Terms of Reference for the Ribble Forum, established to ensure public participation in this model river basin management project under the Water Framework Directive. The…
This report by Capacity Global examines the role of the courts in accessing environmental justice in England and Wales; for the public, lawyers, NGOs and the judiciary. The Government's agenda for…
This article reviews 'Human Rights in Natural Resource Development', published by the Oxford University Press in 2003. The first part of this anthology gives the background and emerging international…
Some exemptions to public authority obligations to respond to information requests are subject to a public interest test (eg Aarhus Convention, Art. 4, paragraph 4). Such a test requires the decision…
The approach of this handbook published by the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe is to use cases to illustrate the obligations of the Aarhus Convention and how they might…
Since the early days of the climate change Convention, non-governmentalorganizations (NGOs) have been actively involved, attending sessions and exchangingviews with other participants, including…
The presentation of Dr. Wolfgang Sinner focused on the legal background of access to environmental information and public participation and the experience made in European Community Member States.…
This press release discusses the European Commission "Proposal for a Regulation on application of the Århus principles to the EU institutions and bodies", "Proposal for a Directive on…
This press release documents the progress toward implementation of the Convention by European Community Member States and institutions as of October 2003.
This dossier deals with the Aarhus Convention before elaborating on attempts at the European Community level to implement it's targets in the ECs Member States and within Community institutions…