AARHUS CONVENTION
April 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLA GROUNDBREAKING legal watchdog, charged with ensuring governments abide by a new international convention on environmental decision-making and information dissemination, has had its first meeting. This Compliance Committee of the recently strengthened Aarhus Convention will, from October, have the right to consider complaints from individual citizens and non-governmental organisations (NGO's) that their governments are not complying with its terms. The committee would, said a memorandum from the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), "be ...
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