AARHUS CONVENTION
February 1st, 2003
BY ALAN OSBORNA NEW international treaty significantly extending the public information required of companies over their output of pollutants has been agreed by 30 member countries of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and is expected to be formally adopted in Kiev in May.Officials at UNECE said that although Britain was among the leading European countries for the release of such information at present, it was likely that the UK would still have to add more chemicals and other pollutants to its pollutant release and transfer register (PRTR).The ...
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