Chapters

• Access to Environmental Information: the first pillar of the Aarhus Convention
• Outline of presentation
• I- Background
• I-(2) Background: Access to documents/ access to environmental information
• I-(3) Background: Interpretation by EU courts on access to documents/ access to environmental information law
• I-(4) Background: Interpretation by EU courts (examples) - effects within EU legal order and within AC
• II- Notion of environmental information
• II - (1) Notion of public authority
• II - (2) Notion of public authority
• II - (3) Notion of public authority
• III- Passive and active dissemination
• IV- Grounds for refusal
• IV- (1) Grounds for refusal and the notions of ‘Emissions into the environment’ and ‘Information on emissions into the environment’
• V Charges - the judgment of CJEU of 6 October 2015, case C-71/14