Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted at the sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention regarding compliance case ACCC/C/2008/32

Summary:

The European Commission adopted on 29 June 2017 a proposal for a Council Decision on the position regarding compliance case ACCC/C/2008/32.

The proposal was endorsed by the Council of the European Union on 17 July.

Further information:

The European Union (EU) signed the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters ('the Aarhus Convention') in 1998.

The Aarhus Convention was the direct reason for the adoption of the Aarhus Regulation, whilst previous EU rules on access to documents helped shape the Convention. The findings of the Compliance Committee case (ACCC/C/2008/32) are problematic for the EU because the findings do not recognise the EU's special legal order.

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)366: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:366:FIN

UNECE: Compliance Committee: Case ACCC/C/2008/32 https://www.unece.org/env/pp/compliance/Compliancecommittee/32TableEC.html

Council of the European Union: Press Release, 17.07.17: Council adopts EU’s position for the forthcoming meeting of the parties http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2017/07/17-aarhus-convention/

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