Cases dealt by the Committee. Click on a case number to read case description.
Case year/No | Country concerned, communicant | Key words |
Kazakhstan: NGO “Green Salvation” | Denial of information and lack of access to justice | |
Kazakhstan: NGO “Green Salvation” | Lack of public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) | |
Ukraine: NGO “Ecopravo-Lviv” | Lack of access to information and public participation in EIA | |
Hungary: Clean Air Action Group | Public participation and access to justice in federal motorway projects | |
Turkmenistan: NGO “BIOTICA” (Moldova) | Inappropriate rules for NGOs and discrimination against foreigners | |
Kazakhstan: Gatina et al | Effective remedies, fair and timely court review | |
Poland: Mr Antoni Zawislak | Illegal waste disposal; compensation claim | |
Armenia: Center for Regional Development (Transparency International Armenia, The A.D. Sakharov Armenian Human Rights Protection Center NGO, and the Armenian Botanical Society | Public participation in plans; access to justice | |
Armenia: NGO Investigative Journalists | Admissibility; exhaustion of domestic remedies | |
Kazakhstan: NGO Green Salvation | Admissibility | |
Belgium: Bond Beter Leefmilieu Vlaanderen VZW | Access to justice for NGOs with respect to environmental decisions in Belgium | |
Albania: Alliance for the Protection of the VloraGulf | Construction of industrial park in Albania. Access to information and public participation | |
Hungary: Clean Air Action Group | Access to justice with regard to extraction areas (for sand, gravel and clay) next to motorways | |
Poland: Mr Antoni Zawislak | Access to documents with regard to hazardous waste; suffering negative consequences by executing the rights provided by the Convention | |
Romania: NGO Alburnus Maior | Public participation in decision-making on Environmental Impact Assessment | |
Lithuania: Association “Kazokiskes community” | Public participation and access to justice in respect of construction of a landfill site | |
European Community: Association “Kazokiskes community” | Public participation and access to justice in respect of construction of a landfill site | |
Denmark: Søren Wium-Andersen | Access to justice with respect to non-compliance of national legislation with EU law | |
United Kingdom: Mr. John D. Hall | Effective public participation with respect to a road construction project | |
Kazakhstan: NGO Green Salvation (KZ) | Locus standi, failure to act, Committee’s effectiveness in dealing with Communication | |
European Community: Civic Alliance for the Bay of Vlora | Financing of a Thermo-Power plant by the European Investment Bank (EIB) | |
France: L’Association L’Association de Défense et de Protection du Littoral du Golfe de Fos-sur and others | Non effective public participation as to a waste disposal incinerator | |
United Kingdom: Mr Morgan, Mrs Baker of Keynsham | Costs of remedies | |
Spain: Association for Environmental Justice (AJA) | Access to information fees; public participation in EIA and land planning; remedies; court costs | |
Albania | Decision-making on an oil-storage terminal and port infrastructure | |
Austria: NETT | Public participation in motorway project planning case | |
United Kingdom: Cultra Residents’ Association | Decision-making on the expansion of the city airport in Belfast | |
Denmark: Knud Haugmark | Access to information on the administration of antibiotics to livestock | |
Poland: Zabianka Housing Cooperative | Public participation as to the construction of a sports hall | |
Moldova: NGO Eco-TIRAS | Access to information | |
Germany: ClientEarth | Limited standing for the public concerned | |
European Community: ClientEarth | Access to the European Court of Justice | |
UK: ClientEarth | Costs and other barriers on Access to justice in the UK | |
Spain: NGO Abogados para la Defensa Ambiental (RADA) | Access to information | |
Georgia: Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) | Access to information; public participation in forest use licensing procedures (auctions) | |
Spain: NGO Plataforma Contra la Contaminación de Almendralejo | Access to information, public participation in decision-making, EIA, financial barriers in access to justice, harassment of activists | |
Belarus: Confidential communicant | Belarus: Confidential communicant | |
UK: Road Sense | Breach of the three Aarhus pillars with respect to the planning and implementation of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) | |
Austria: Hungarian Municipality of Szentgotthard | Failure to ensure the possibility for participation and access to review procedures for the public by a waste incinerator close to the Austrian/Hungarian border | |
UK: Mrs. Elizabeth Condron | Failure to prevent the communicant to be penalized, prosecuted and harassed when exercising her rights under the Convention against an opencast coal mine | |
Slovak Republic: GLOBAL 2000/FoE Austria | Early and effective public participation with regard to the Mochocvce nuclear power plant permitting procedures | |
Hungary: Communicant requested confidentiality | Penalization and harassment when exercising the Conventions rights | |
Armenia: NGO Transparency International Anti-corruption Center | Public participation in licensing of mining projects; access to justice | |
Belarus: NGOs - European ECO Forum Legal Focal Points | Access to information; public participation in nuclear decision-making; harassment of activities; failure adopt adequate national legislation | |
UK: Mr. Gareth Clubb and others | Welsh language and public participation | |
Austria: OEKOBUERO | Access to Justice in Austria |
All descriptions were prepared within Making Aarhus Convention Work for Civil Society project by ECO Forum legal Focal points. Last updated - June 1, 2010.
