Justice and Environment is a non-profit, non-partisan network of public-interest environmental-law organisations based in European Union Member States, including the Environmental Law Service (Czech Republic), the Environmental Management and Law Association (Hungary), the Estonian Fund for Nature (Estonia), ÖKOBÜRO (Austria) and Via Iuris (Slovakia). Its goal is to use the legal system to protect people, nature and the environment and ensure proper implementation and enforcement of EU legislation through litigation, education, lobbying and exchange of information. In 2006 the network identified three priority issues: the Aarhus Convention and related legislation, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Natura 2000. With News, Aarhus position paper, legal analysis and case studies, and national projects.
