{"id":142659,"date":"2020-11-27T16:57:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/aarhus-workshop-on-access-to-justice-at-eu-level-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T08:38:26","slug":"aarhus-workshop-on-access-to-justice-at-eu-level-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/aarhus-workshop-on-access-to-justice-at-eu-level-2\/","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;11025&#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;]November 27 Berlin[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Third Aarhus workshop on \u201cHow can access to justice be improved at EU level?\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Around 30 people interested in Aarhus from environmental associations, the legal community and specialized lawyers took part in the third Aarhus workshop on 17 November 2020. Sebastian Bechtel, environmental democracy lawyer at ClientEarth Brussels, kicked off the workshop with two informative presentations on the following challenging questions: \u201cWhat has gone wrong with access to justice at EU level so far?\u201d and \u201cWill the proposed amendment to the Aarhus Regulation remedy the situation?\u201d In two panel discussions with Aarhus experts from Germany, Portugal and Slovenia, the EU countries currently holding the Trio Presidency of the Council of the European Union until the end of 2021, the obstacles to access to justice were identified and concrete areas for improvement were outlined. Dr. Raphael Weyland, Head of the Brussels office of Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU), Dr. Catarina Grilo, Director of Nature Conservation and Policy at ANP in cooperation with WWF Portugal, and Senka \u0160ifkovi Vrbica, employee at PIC Slovenia, shared their practical experiences on access to European and national courts. Dr. Maria Alexandra de Sousa Arag\u00e3o, Professor at the University of Coimbra, Dr. Vasilka Sancin, Professor at the University of Ljubljana and Director of the Centre for International and Economic Law, and Sebastian Bechtel discussed with the participants how access to justice can be further strengthened at EU level. A joint position paper was drawn up 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 here (will be submitted later). If you have any questions, please contact: <a href=\"mailto:kathleen.pauleweit@ufu.de\">kathleen.pauleweit@ufu.de<\/a> The workshop discussion 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\/\">Federal Environment Agency<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmu.de\/\">Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety<\/a> as part of the funding for associations. Further information on this project and its background can be found <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>30 people interested in Aarhus discuss access to justice at EU level in a workshop.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142659","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\/142659","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=142659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ufu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}