On 4 March 2010, the European Commission authorised the placing on the market of a genetically modified potato called Amflora.
This potato contains modified starch which – according to the consent holder BASF – can be better processed into products like paper and adhesives. The authorisation was issued for cultivation and for use as feed and [...]
Short studies (“toolkits”) presented in this material are summarizing the most important experience of the J&E members and their national partners concerning promotion of the access to justice rights in their respective countries. They aim to provide an instrument to the users of access to justice rights in brief and (hopefully) easy-to understand form the [...]
The European Commmission aims to review the Seveso II directive 96/82 EC on industrial accidents. For that purpose the Commission started preparations for a review process starting with an assessment of the directive’s impact, strengths and weaknesses and prelimanary discussions with stakeholders. We expect the official consultation procedure to start in the next months.
Justice and [...]
Over 80 million Europeans are exposed to harmful noise levels. The EU acquis, Environmental Action Programmes and finally the 2002/49/EC3 Environmental Noise Directive (END) described and targeted noise as one of the basic environmental problems. In year 2009, following upon a 2006 needs assessment, the legal experts of the Justice & Environment (J&E) Network compiled [...]
Two new set of J&E analyses are out now: RIR IN PRACTICE, The Functioning of the Legal Instrument of Request for Internal Review under the Aarhus Regulation and PRICE OF JUSTICE – International Comparative Analysis on Costs of Administrative and Judicial Remedies.
A new J&E Access To Justice Collection is available on the Justice and Environment Website. The collection is based on practrical experiences and court cases of J&E member organisations in seven countries. The national studies discuss the definition of terms for access to justice by individual members of public (standing conditions); the scope of [...]
On 16 and 17 April, an international conference on access to justice in environmental matters was held at the Supreme Administrative Court in Brno, Czech Republic, organised by the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic in the scope of the Czech EU presidency.
More than 80 experts from 17 European countries, judges and assistants form higher courts, lawyers of ministries, university pedagogues, attorneys and others addressed the experience with practical application of the “Aarhus Convention” at courts in individual EU countries.
