Aarhus Convention

The full text of the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) in the appropriate language (  pdf format):

Authentic texts

English...............French...............Russian

Source: http://www.unece.org/env/pp/treatytext.html

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On 7-8 February, 2013.  IIC representatives (Olga Generalova-Kutuzova, the head of the delegation) took part in the first meeting of the Task Force on Access to Information under the auspices of the Aarhus Convention, Palais des Nations, Salle VIII, Geneva (Switzerland). 

On 29-30 October 2012 representatives of the IIC: Director Olga Generalova-Kutuzova and President Andrey Generalov took part in the  joint meeting on public participation in strategic environmental decision-making, organized under the auspices of the Task Force of the Aarhus Convention on public participation in decision-making (TF on PPDM) and the Office of the SEA Protocol to the Espoo Convention, held in Geneva (Switzerland), at the Palais des Nations of the United Nations.

On October 29, 2012 IIC representatives: Director Olga Generalova-Kutuzova and President Andrey Generalov took part and presented their proposals at a meeting devoted to the  start of consulting project with respect to the overall management to address possible systemic inconsistency between the Espoo Convention and environmental assessment under the EIA / state environmental review, which  was held in Geneva (Switzerland), at the Geneva office of the United Nations.

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