AARHUS CONVENTION EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT NGO ECJ ACCESS REFUSED – ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NON-GOVERNMENTAL organisations have voiced disappointment over a refusal by the European Parliament to grant them the right to take public authorities to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) should they illegally conceal environmental information. The parliament rejected a proposed amendment mandating this right to a regulation writing into European Union (EU) law the UN Economic Commission for Europe Aarhus convention on environmental decision-making. The European Environmental Bureau and CEE-Bankwatch groups said: "We are disappointed that ...
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