AARHUS CONVENTION EU REGULATION APPROVAL
May 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
GREEN campaigners from next June will be able to launch legal action to force European Union (EU) institutions to disgorge potentially important environmental information. Under an EU law agreed last week (3 May) by a conciliation committee linking the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers, the terms of the UN's Aarhus Convention on environmental transparency must apply to EU bodies. This means most environmental information held by them must be made available to EU citizens and organisations within eight weeks of a ...
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