Aarhus Convention Sample Clauses

Aarhus Convention. EU’s environment-specific legislation on the access to environment-related public information largely comes down to implementing the provisions of the so-called Aarhus Convention319 prepared by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) 306 ibid. art 10.1.a. 307 ibid. art 10.1.b. 308 ibid. art 11. 309 ibid. art 10.1.c. 310 “Any citizen of the Union, and any natural or legal person residing or having its registered office in a Member State, shall have the right to address, individually or in association with other citizens or persons, a petition to the European Parliament on a matter which comes within the Union's fields of activity and which affects him, her or it directly.” See TFEU (n266), art 227. 311 Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament (8th parliamentary term, January 2017) <xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xx/sides/xxxXxx.xx?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+RULES- EP+20170116+TOC+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN#top> accessed 11 October 2017 (Rules of Procedure). 312 Rules of Procedure (n311), rule 216.2. 313 ibid. 314 ibid, rule 216.3. 315 TFEU (n266), art 228.1 1st para. See also, EC, Euratom, ‘Decision of the European Parliament of 9 March 1994 on the regulations and general conditions governing the performance of the Ombudsman's duties’ [1994] L 000 00-00 amended with [2002] L 92 OJ 13; (2008) L 189 OJ 25. 316 Ibid, art 228.1 2nd para. 317 Ibid. 318 See ESTNUHE Report (n 102). 319 Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (done at Aarhus, Denmark, on 25 June 1998) (Aarhus Convention). and opened for signatures in June 1998. It is worth mentioning at this stage,320 that the Aarhus Convention, recalling transparency-related provisions among others of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development321 and the European Charter on Environment and Health,322 is based on the premises that: ▪ to be able to assert the right to live in a healthy environment and observe the duty to protect and improve the environment, citizens must have access to information, be entitled to participate in decision-making and have access to justice in environmental matters, 323 and ▪ in the field of the environment, improved access to information and public participation in decision-making enhance the quality and the implementation of decisions, contribute to public awareness of environmental issues, [and] give the public the opportunity to express its concerns and enable public authorities to...
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