28 Settembre 2006 - Bruxelles New EU Parliament and Council regulation lays down the rules for community institutions to inform and involve the public in environmental decisions. The role of NGOs is strengthened.
Last September 6, the EU Parliament and the Council have adopted a regulation that requires, as of July 2007, EU institutions to involve the public in environmental decision making and to facilitate access to environmental information.
The EU Commission will have to offer concrete opportunities to participate at the elaboration and/or modification of environmental plans and programs, from the very start of the process, when different options are still open.
Environmental NGOs are entitled to request an internal review to a community institution or body which has adopted, or should have adopted, an environmental administrative act.
With this regulation community institutions are moreover required to publish environmental data in electronic data banks that are easily accessible to the public. The only exception concerns data which could damage the environment (for instance the reproductive sites of rare species).
The regulation requires the Commission to publish, at least once every four years, a report on the state of the European environment, a task which until now was carried out every five years by the European Environmental Agency. The regulation gives practical implementation to the United Nations Aarhus convention.
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