Healthy Decisions
Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environment and Health Matters
June 1999
This document was prepared by the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe at the request of the WHO Regional Office for Europe to provide the factual background for the topic of "public participation, access to information and access to justice in environment and health matters" at the Third Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, held in June 1999 in London.
CONTENTS
Foreword
Part I
Overview the Institutional and Legal Framework and Practices of Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environment and Health Matters
Part II
Implications and Implementation of Selected International Legal Instruments
Dealing with Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to
Justice in Environment and Health Related Decisions
Part III
Assessment of Good Practices on Access to Information and Public Participation in Decision-making in the NEHAP and LEHAP Processes
Annex A
Defining the Public and NGOs
Annex B
Member States of the WHO European Region
PREPARED FOR:
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE
This project was made possible by the generous contribution of the Government of
the Netherlands, with further support from ABA/CEELI and the Regional Environmental
Center for Central and Eastern Europe. This support is gratefully acknowledged.
The entire contents of this publication are copyright 1999 World Health Organization
No part of this document may be sold in any form or reproduced for sale
without prior written permission of the copyright holder
Produced by:
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
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Edited by Jennifer Braswell, Jim McNicholas, Tom Popper and Reuben Stern
Prepared for the web by Emese Gal
Cover Illustration by Emilia Szewczyk, 14 years old, Szkola Podstawowa, Gorzow, Poland
This school participates in the European Network of Health Promoting Schools,
a joint project of the European Commission, the Council of Europe and
the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe
