THE CITIZENS’ PUBLIC PARTICIPATION UNDER EUROPEAN UNION LAW AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

USV Annals of Economics and Public Administration

卷:14

Valentine Charlotte ENE¹ 

[1] Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania, Departament of Law;

关键词: public participation;    Aarhus Convention;    European Citizens’ Initiative;    environmental citizenship;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice inEnvironmental Matters, June 25, 1998 (entered into force Oct. 30, 2001) [hereinafter Aarhus Convention], negotiatedunder the auspices of the UN/ECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), is the result of the efforts toestablish international legal standards in the field of citizens’ environmental rights to date. Also, it is the firstinternational document about public participation in environmental matters, developing the principle 10 of the RioDeclaration, which stresses the need for citizen's participation in environmental issues and for access to information onthe environment held by public authorities. Public participation, one of the three main pillars provided by AarhusConvention, could be one of the key factors in involving the citizens in the protection of the environment andstrengthening compliance and enforcement of national and European environmental law. Under European Unionregulations, the right to participate in environmental decision-making process could be exercise more effectively basedon European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) procedure. Therefore, the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), as introduced bythe Lisbon Treaty, allows citizens to request new EU legislation once a million signatures from seven member stateshave been collected asking the European Commission to do so. This paper explores environmental citizenship withinthe framework of European Union (EU) environmental law.

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