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Guidelines of 1995
The Convention builds upon the Sofia Guidelines
endorsed at the Third Ministerial Conference "Environment
for Europe" in Sofia, Bulgaria, 1995.
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Texts from the Committee on Environmental Policy
At its special session on 17 January 1996, the
CEP decided to establish the Ad Hoc Working Group
for the preparation of a draft convention on access
to environmental information and public participation
in environmental decision-making. The Committee agreed
on a mandate of the Working Group on the understanding
that the Committee could give further guidance during
the course of the work, if necessary, and decided
to annex it to the report on the session (annex I).
The full text of the
report on the special session of the CEP:
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The Mandate of the
Ad Hoc Working Group:
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Reports on the meetings of the Ad Hoc Working Group
The Working Group met over ten session from
June 1996 to March 1998. On this web site you will
find the official reports on the ten negotiation sessions
in the three official UNECE languages.
Reports on the negotiations of the Convention
Resolution on Access
to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making
and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, adopted
in Aarhus on 25 June 1998 - English
only
If you need any further
information or have any questions to the material,
please contact public.participation@unece.org