Contents

Access to information

Journal:
Manual of European Environmental Policy
ISSN:
1467-0445
E-ISSN:
1740-3529
Publisher:
Earthscan, London, UK
DOI:
10.3763/meep.2010.0161
Author:
Institute for European Environmental Policy
Information last updated:
December 2011
Publication date:
December 2011

Access to environmental information is considered a key element in securing improved environmental standards, alongside public participation in Decision making and access to justice. Directive 90/313/EC, for the first time, required Member States' public authorities holding information on the environment to make such information available, subject to certain exclusions. Directive 2003/4/EC, which repeals and replaces Directive 90/313/EC, strengthens access to environmental information provisions further by requiring ‘the widest possible systematic availability and dissemination to the public’ of such information. It establishes the ‘right’ to access rather than the ‘freedom’ of access, and emphasizes the role of information technology in improving access.

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