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Aarhus Convention
Duration: 1998 - ongoing
Scope: Global
Policy area: Environment
Legal status: Legally binding
Type of instrument: Regulatory
Form of instrument: Convention
Language: English, French
URL: Aarhus Convention website
Format: html
Access: Free
Publisher: UNECE
Country(ies): Switzerland
Date: 3/11/2011

The Convention lays down precise rights and duties regarding access to information, including deadlines for providing information and the grounds on which public authorities may refuse access to certain types of information.

Objective To keep citizens informed about and involved in environmental matters and to improve the application of environmental legislation
Target Public access to environmental information
Policy and/or legal framework Fourth Ministerial Conference in the 'Environment for Europe' process
Monitoring, assessing and reporting Meeting of the Parties
Linkage(s) to policy processes, instruments and institutions UNECE
Keywords Aarhus Convention, environmental policy and legislation, environmental information, information services, public participation, access to information
FOREST EUROPE criteria FOREST EUROPE indicators ToSIA indicators
Overall policies, institutions and instruments for sustainable forest management Informational needs No ToSIA indicators for this Policy process and instrument