{"id":11039,"date":"2020-11-27T16:57:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/?p=11039"},"modified":"2024-02-22T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:06:01","slug":"aarhus-workshop-on-access-to-justice-at-eu-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/aarhus-workshop-on-access-to-justice-at-eu-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Aarhus Workshop on access to justice at EU level"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_gallery el_id=&#8221;gallery-123655&#8243; medias=&#8221;11047&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; media_items=&#8221;media|lightbox|original,icon,caption&#8221; screen_lg=&#8221;1000&#8243; screen_md=&#8221;600&#8243; screen_sm=&#8221;480&#8243; single_overlay_opacity=&#8221;50&#8243; single_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; lbox_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;ufu-projekt&#8221;]27th November Berlin[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Third Aarhus Workshop on \u201eHow could access to justice at European Union level be improved?\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Almost three dozen Aarhus-interested participants from environmental associations, the legal profession and specialised lawyers took part in the third Aarhus Workshop on 17 November 2020. Sebastian Bechtel, environmental democracy lawyer for ClientEarth Brussels, introduced the Workshop with two intriguing presentations on the challenging questions: \u201cWhat is wrong with access to justice in the European Union?\u201d and \u201cDoes the Amendment to the Aarhus Regulation help?\u201d. Two panel discussions with Aarhus experts from Germany, Portugal and Slovenia \u00ad the EU countries which are currently sharing the Trio Council Presidency till the end of 2021 \u00ad further elaborated on access to justice hurdles and identified concrete areas for improvement. Dr Raphael Weyland, Head of Brussels Office at Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU); Catarina Grilo, PhD, Director of Conservation and Policy at ANP in association with WWF; and Senka \u0160ifkovi Vrbica, legal expert at PIC Slovenia, shared their hands-on experience around accessing European and Member State courts. Dr Maria Alexandra de Sousa Arag\u00e3o, Professor at University of Coimbra; Dr Vasilka Sancin, Associate Professor at University of Ljubljana and Director of Centre for International and Business Law; as well as Sebastian Bechtel, discussed with the participants how access to justice at European Union level could be further strengthened.<\/p>\n<p>A joint position paper was developed during the third Aarhus Workshop. The \u201cGerman Portuguese Slovenian Civil Society Declaration on Access to Justice for Citizens &amp; NGOs at European Union Level\u201d can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Aarhus_Trio_Declaration_A2J_EU.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For any questions, please contact us: <a href=\"mailto:kathleen.pauleweit@ufu.de\">kathleen.pauleweit@ufu.de<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The workshop is part of the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/projekt\/eu-aarko\/\">\u201cEuropean Implementation of the Aarhus Convention in the Digital Age (EU-AarKo)\u201d<\/a> of the Independent Institute for Environmental Issues (UfU e.V.). This project is funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umweltbundesamt.de\/en\">German Environment Agency (UBA)<\/a> and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety within the framework of the sponsorship of environmental associations.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this project and its background, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/projekt\/eu-aarko\/\">here<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aarhus experts discussed access to courts at European Union level at the 3rd digital Aarhus Workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unkategorisiert"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}