Convention limitations in realization of right on access to ecological information

Authors

  • Artem Butsmak National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine image/svg+xml

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31548/law2020.02.008

Abstract

In the article the issue of the day of possibility of limitation of right for access rises to ecological information by the use of the mechanisms envisaged by Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention). Rewied the history of development and legislative fixing of right for access to ecological information. Systematizated limitations in the field of access to ecological information. Analyzed some grounds for denying access to environmental information.

Keywords: ecolaw, right on access to ecological information, limitation of right on access to ecological information

References

Zahalna deklaratsiia prav liudyny [Universal Declaration of Human Rights]. Available at: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/995_015 (in Ukrainian).

Deklaratsiia Konferentsii Orhanizatsii Ob’iednanykh Natsii z problem otochuiuchoho liudynu seredovyshcha [Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment]. Available at: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/995_454 (in Ukrainian).

Vsesvitnia Khartiia pryrody [World Charter for Nature]. Available at: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/995_453 (in Ukrainian).

Deklaratsiia Rio-de-Zhaneiro shchodo navkolyshnoho seredovyshcha ta rozvytku [Rio Declaration on Environment and Development]. Available at: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/995_455 (in Ukrainian).

Konventsiia pro dostup do informatsii, uchast hromadskosti v protsesi pryiniattia rishen ta dostup do pravosuddia z pytan, shcho stosuiutsia dovkillia (Orkhuska konventsiia) [Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters]. Available at: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/main/994_015 (in Ukrainian).

Published

2020-08-30

Issue

Section

Agrarian Law, Land Law, Ecological Law