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2010-05-25 / Access To Justice - Position Paper
This Position Paper summarizes the results of the Report on Access to Justice and other J&E’s recent analyses related to the Aarhus Convention (“Price of Justice” and analyses of the Request for Internal Review procedure according to the EU-Aarhus Regulation).
Subsequently, it proposes a number of recommendations for the EU institutions, including - re-starting the discussions about the Commission’s proposal of the Directive on Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, specifying minimum common rules on that field - initiate conformity - checking procedure concerning implementation of Art. 9(3) and Art. 9(4) of the Aarhus Convention by the Member States.. - review the application of the request for internal review procedure, namely the criteria applied for the admissibility of the requests ATJ under Aarhus Convention - position paper