Annex 1: List of Selected Indicators
Access to Information and/or Environmental Information
What is the legal basis for the right to information and/or environmental information?
Is there a right in the constitution?
Is there a specific law regulating access to information?
What are the time limits for:
- Refusal
- Provision of information
- Possibility of prolongation (up to 8 days; 15 days, 1 month or to 2 months)
What kind of information is excluded from the right of access to information?
Is there a possibility for a public interest test?
What are the costs of information?
- Costs are not regulated
- There are reasonable charges
- Costs cover only copying of information
- Costs cover processing of information
- The information is provided free of charge
- Costs can be an obstacle
If public authority does not possess the information, the agency will:
- search for information
- provide contact to the institution that possesses the information
- forward request to the institution that possesses the information
- refuse to provide information
Dissemination of information on the Internet
- What type of information is available on the Internet?
Public Participation in Environmental Decisionmaking
Who can participate in the different types of decisions on preparation and approval of:
- national laws and regulations
- national policies, plans and programs
- local rules and regulations
- local policies, plans and programs
- land-use plans
Natural/Legal persons:
- everyone
- affected/interested public
- every NGO
- affected/interested NGOs
- What rights do they have?
Who can participate in decisions on EIA in the different phases of decisionmaking?
- (screening, scoping, review of EIA documents, appeal, post-EIA monitoring and enforcement)
- What rights do they have?
Natural/Legal persons:
- everyone
- affected/interested public
- every NGO
- affected/interested NGOs
Who can participate in decisions on permitting in the different phases of decisionmaking?
- everyone
- affected/interested public
- every NGO
- affected/interested NGOs
Who is notified about the permitting procedure?
- everyone
- affected/interested public
- every NGO
- affected/interested NGOs
- What rights do they have?
Access to Justice
Is there a constitutional right to a healthy environment?
Who has standing in administrative procedures/against government/ against polluters?
- everyone
- affected/interested public
- every NGO
- affected/interested NGOs
Is there a possibility of injunctive relief?
What are the costs of court procedures?
- Is it affordable for citizens/NGOs?
- Is there a possibility of waiver or recovery of costs?
REC * PUBLICATIONS * DOORS TO DEMOCRACY - NIS * LIST OF SELECTED INDICATORS
