Brussels, 21/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - The eight most important European organisations as far as environmental matters go - Green Eight (Birdlife International, Climate Action Europe, European Environmental Bureau, Friends of Nature International, European Federation for Transport and Environment, Friends of the Earth of Eourpe, Greepeace and the World Wide Fund for Natures) have drawn up joint proposals for amenbding the current draft for a European Constitution and call upon the Commission and the Parliament to include these proposals within a publication entitled "Towards a Green Constitution", as part of the agenda foreseen for the intergovernmental conference in October. The eight partners consider that the draft Constitutin as it stands is insufficient jfor putting Europe on the road toward real sustainable development. "Improvements to the draft Constitution are necessary so that the Euorena Union can deliver sustainable development both inside and outside the EU", Tony Long, WWF Director and spokesman for Green Eight, said. Above all, the Green Eight consider that some parts of the draft Constitution were developed from EC Treaty articles without taking into account developments that have since taken place in agriculture, transport, energy and development policies, and are thus not at all ni phase with the aims of sustainable development or environmental protection. The Green Eight also calls for: - more preceise language on participatory democracy, especially on public participation and access to justice; - the inclusion of the right to a cleean and safe environemnt in the Charter of Fundamental Rights; - abolition of the Euratom Treaty. The partners again state that they support on the whole the inititiave by Commissioner Wallström with a view to adding a Protocol on Sustainable Development.