Supported by the Irish Research Council
The Commission has launched a new consultation today (28.6.13) on access to justice in environmental matters – options for improving access to justice at Member State level
Background document and further details here:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/consultations/access_justice_en.htm
Judgment delivered by the Chief Justice available on Courts Service website:
Topics covered at this event, which ICEL is hosting in association with the Association of European Administrative Judges, will include the Aarhus Convention and remedies where a public authority fails to act in the environmental law context. See further: http://www.icel.ie/
EPA National Water Event 2013, Galway, 12-13 June
Presentations now available for download here:
http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/other/events/oee/2013nationalwaterevent/
The Department of Environment, Community and Local Government has launched a public consultation process on Ireland’s implementation of the Aarhus Convention.
The process will result in the development of Ireland’s first National Implementation Report 2014.
A preliminary draft of the implementation report has been prepared and comments are now invited from stakeholders, members of the public and other interested parties.
The draft report, and further information around the public consultation process, is available at: http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/AarhusConvention/PublicConsultations/
Responses and Access to Information
Comments on the first phase of this public consultation should be submitted by email or by post no later than 5pm on Friday 9 August 2013 to the addresses below:
Email: ACConsultation@environ.ie
Post: Environment Policy Section Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government Newtown Road Wexford
Please note that all submissions and comments submitted to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government for this purpose are subject to release under the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003 and under the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations (2007 to 2011) and may be placed on the Department’s website.
Questions
Any questions should be referred to ACConsultation@environ.ie
Judgment of Hogan J in Wicklow County Council v Fortune (No 2) [2013] IEHC 255, delivered 6 June 2013 is available on the Courts Service website
Commentary in the Irish Times 17 June 2013:
‘High Court ruling on retention of Wicklow home sets an ‘unhappy precedent’ says planners’ http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/high-court-ruling-on-retention-of-wicklow-home-sets-an-unhappy-precedent-planners-1.1429084
