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...