Enforcement of Rights to Access to Information and Participation in Environmental Decision-Making.
For access to information and public participation in decision-making to be effective, it is necessary to ensure recourse to administrative or judicial proceedings.
All Parties to the Aarhus Convention are therefore required to establish access to a review procedure before a court or another independent or impartial body.
This should be easily accessible and inexpensive. Adequate and effective remedies should provided.
The Convention also calls on the Parties to ensure that members of the public have access to administrative or judicial procedures to challenge acts and omissions by private individuals and public authorities that contravene provisions of their national law relating to the environment.
