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Would you like to consult the National Climate Plan? Are you looking for more information about biodiversity or our North Sea? Or would you like a copy of a Royal Decree on...
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THE NORTH SEA, OUR ELEVENTH PROVINCE!
The Belgian part of the North Sea, at nearly 3,500 km², is about the size of a province. This amounts to 0.5% of the entire North Sea. This...
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From Rio to Aarhus
In 1992, in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development adopted a declaration, known as the "Rio Declaration",...
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The federal public authorities apply the 'access to environmental information' pillar of the Aarhus Convention by making their environmental information available to the public....
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The Aarhus Convention requires countries to set up a system ensuring effective access to justice without barriers of any kind, especially financial.
In Belgium, legal aid exists...
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Plans and programmes relating to environment are an essential tool when organising social activities in time and space.
Plans can be established at various levels:...
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The acceptance procedures for projects or specific activities such as establishing a new industrial activity, a new road or a land development, require an environmental impact...
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A broad access
The access to justice as provided for by the Aarhus Convention aims firstly at making legal action possible in case of failings regarding access to environmental...
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There are three possible kinds of action in our country:
Judicial appeals: courts and tribunals
Judicial appeal is intended for disputes concerning prerogatives (subjective...
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The federal authorities apply the "Participation in decision-making" pillar of the Aarhus Convention by allowing citizens to participate in the drafting of:
environmental...