clientearth-and-eeb-joint-letter-on-access-to-justice-coll-en-813bc32639a09ec1.pdf

ClientEarth and the European Environmental Bureau are calling on EU Environment Ministers to push the Commission to revise the Aarhus Regulation. This follows a 2017 finding by the Aarhus Convention's Compliance Committee that the EU is in non-compliance because environmental NGOs have virtually no access to the Court of Justice of the EU to challenge EU institutional acts and omissions, except in cases involving access to documents.

• The Aarhus Convention's independent Compliance Committee found in March 2017 that the EU is in non-compliance because there are insufficient opportunities for the public to access justice at the level of EU institutions.
• In September 2017, the EU opposed the Meeting of the Parties (MoP) endorsing the finding of non-compliance, which led to a stalemate and the postponement of the issue until the next MoP in 2021.
• The root cause of the non-compliance is that environmental NGOs lack access to the Court of Justice of the EU to challenge the acts and omissions of EU institutions, with the exception of cases regarding access to documents.
• The authors argue that the only way to restore compliance is for the Commission to revise the Aarhus Regulation, specifically by removing the limitation that restricts challenges to 'measures of individual scope under environmental law'.

APA

ClientEarth (2018). clientearth-and-eeb-joint-letter-on-access-to-justice-coll-en-813bc32639a09ec1.pdf. https://www.clientearth.org/media/w2ieadlz/clientearth-and-eeb-joint-letter-on-access-to-justice-coll-en.pdf

Chicago

ClientEarth. clientearth-and-eeb-joint-letter-on-access-to-justice-coll-en-813bc32639a09ec1.pdf. 2018. https://www.clientearth.org/media/w2ieadlz/clientearth-and-eeb-joint-letter-on-access-to-justice-coll-en.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{clientearth2018clientearthandeebjointletteronaccesstojusticecollen813bc32639a09ec1pdf, author = {{ClientEarth}}, title = {{clientearth-and-eeb-joint-letter-on-access-to-justice-coll-en-813bc32639a09ec1.pdf}}, publisher = {ClientEarth}, year = {2018}, month = apr, url = {https://www.clientearth.org/media/w2ieadlz/clientearth-and-eeb-joint-letter-on-access-to-justice-coll-en.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }