The Aarhus Convention at ten
Subtitle: interactions and tensions between conventional international law and EU environmental law
By: edited by Marc Pallemaerts
Series: The Avosetta series -- 9; Avosetta series -- 9.
Publisher: Europa Law Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Groningen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9789089520487
Subjects: Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making, and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters; International and municipal law; Environmental law; International Environmental law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-440).
Table of contents: title: Economy, ecology, and environmental democracy  -- Francesco La Camera; title: EU enlargement, neighbourhood policy, and environmental democracy  -- Stephen Stec; title: Access to environmental information : the reciprocal influences of EU law and the Aarhus Convention  -- Ralph Hallo; title: From a general right of access to environmental information in the Aarhus Convention to a general right of access to all information in official documents : the Council of Europe's Tromsø Convention  -- Frankie Schram; title: Public participation in environmental decision making : interactions between the Convention and EU law and other key legal issues in its implementation in the light of opinions of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee  -- Jerzy Jendrośka; title: EU rules on public participation in environmental decision making operating at the European and national levels  -- Daniela Obradovic; title: Aarhus to Helsinki : participation in environmental decision making on chemicals  -- Veerle Heyvaert; title: Shaping transnational public participation norms in the field of modern biotechnology : time for a global good governance approach?  -- Mihail Kritikos; title: Access to justice a the national level : impact of the Aarhus Convention and European Union law  -- Jonas Ebbesson; title: Access to environmental justice at EU level : has "Aarhus regulation" improved the situation?  -- Marc Pallemaerts; title: Access to environmental justice : a United Kingdom perspective  -- Richard Macrory & Ned Westaway; title: Implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Belgium : some elements  -- Michel Delnoy; title: Locus standi for environmental NGOs in Germany : the (non-)implementation of the Aarhus Convention by the Umweltrechtsbehelfsgesetz : some critical remarks  -- Gerhard Roller; title: The interplay between EU law and international law procedures in controlling compliance with the Aarhus Convention by EU member states  -- Attila Tanzi & Cesare Pitea; title: The future of the Aarhus Convention : perspectives arising from the third session of the meeting of the parties -- Jeremy Wates.