1. Economic and Electronic Barriers of the Access to Information and Public Participation in Environmental Matters
Prof. JUDr. Milan DAMOHORSKÝ, DrSc.
Environmental Law Department
Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague

2. Contents of the Presentation
Introduction
Aarhus Convention and the Czech Legal Regulation
Economic Barriers
Electronic Barriers
Recommendations and Conclusions
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3. Introduction
Aarhus Convention and it’s enforcement from the theoretical and practical point of view.
Problems with the AC enforcement from the legal, economic and electronic point of view.
The three pillars of the AC.
Role of the NGOs, municipality and state.
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4. SAarhus convention and the Czech legal regulation Aarhus Convention and the Czech Legal Regulation
Czech Republic – access to the Aarhus Convention Main sources of the legal regulation Constitutional Charter of the Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Act on Environmental Information Act on Nature and Landscape Protection and some others
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5. Economic Barriers Costs of the Access to information
Costs of the Access to justice
Environmental information - only mail, copying and paper costs, no costs of the working time of the staffs.
General information access - the same and the costs of the working time of the staffs.
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6. Electronic Barriers Advantages :
- fast and simple access even from home,
low costs for the operator and the state,
free access for everybody from any place of the Globe
Disadvantages :
bad (good) timing of the internet placing,
technical limits of access and participation,
anonymity and invisibility
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7. Recommendations and Conclusions
Fundamental decisions paralely in the mass media and paper form.
Diversification of the forms towards according the seriousness of the case (two or three levels).
Greater engagement of the profesional (environmetal) lawyers.
Evaluation not only environmental, legal and economic consequences, but even sociological and psychological aspects of decision making.
Simplification of the procedure.
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8. Thank You for Your Attention. damohors@prf.cuni.cz
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