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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12720

18 May 2021
SECTORAL POLICIES / Environment
Public access to justice, EU Council legal opinion on amendment of ‘Aarhus’ Regulation clarifies matters
Brussels, 17/05/2021 (Agence Europe)

The EU Council was aware that the political agreement reached in December 2020 on amending the EU’s ‘Aarhus’ Regulation (EC No 1367/2006) would likely require adjustments to improve public access to justice in environmental matters and thus bring the Regulation into line with the international Aarhus Convention which it transposes (Case ACCC/C2008/32).

The EU Council’s legal opinion, now available, confirms this in an internal document of 11 May, prepared by the Portuguese...

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