EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FREE ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION CALL
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL and regional authorities in the European Union (EU) should be forced to yield up environmental information for free, the European Parliament's environment committee has proposed. Its move has come in retabled second reading amendments to a European Commission proposed system for accessing and exchanging environmental information, on the air, water, soil and the countryside. Said a committee statement: "Free access, according to the committee, should without payment for members of the public - not only for those searching the ...
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