Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 599 g
Reihe: Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 599 g
Reihe: Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
ISBN: 978-1-03-230976-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
- Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
- Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
- Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht Allgemeines und Gesamtdarstellungen (Gesellschaftsrecht)
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
List of acronyms and abbreviations
- Introduction
- Why now?
- Background and scope
- Normative Framework
- Preliminary Notions of the Right to Know and the Private Sector
- Legal and Historical Precedents of Access to Environmental Information
- Transition to democratic state models
- The transparency trend
- ‘Information governance’ and environmental reform
- The evolution of human rights theory
- Fundamental notions of Private Entities
- Public v Private
- Definition of Private Entities
- Public and Private Information
- The protection of business confidentiality
- The Aarhus Convention: Fundamental concepts and contribution
- Environmental Participation under Aarhus
- Contribution and innovative features
- Characterisation of the Right to Access Environmental Information
- Recognition of the right to information as a human right
- The Right to Access Environmental Information in International Law
- Influence of International Law in regional and national jurisdictions
- Statutory and constitutional recognition of the right to information
- The right of access to environmental information at national level
- Systems for public participation in environmental matters
- Scope of the Laws providing Access to Information
- Scope of beneficiaries: Is access to information provided without discrimination and without having to state an interest?
- Material scope: What information can be accessed?
- Data, information and knowledge
- Restrictions based on format
- The definition of ‘Environmental Information’
- Access to ‘relevant’ environmental information in decision-making processes
- Scope of obligated subjects
- Scope of exempted information
- Access to Private Sector Environmental Information
- Why increase access to private sector environmental information?
- Indirect access through public authorities
- Active disclosure: from the private duty to report to the public obligation to inform
- Passive access: Indirect access by request to a public authority
- Direct access to environmental information held by private entities
- Private entities included in the definition of ‘public authorities’
- Private entities not included in the definition of ‘public authorities’
- Private entities active disclosure
- The Protection of Trade Secrets and ‘Confidential Business Information’
- Why is business confidentiality worthy of protection?
- Defining ‘confidential business information’
- The logic behind the protection of CBI
- Trade secrets as property
- Trade secrets as Intellectual Property
- Trade secrets as Human Rights
- Statutes for the protection of CBI
- Trade secrets under international law
- CBI protection and national level
- CBI not qualifying as trade secrets or IP
- Types of CBI and trade secrets with special protection
- Protection of CBI and trade secrets via exceptions to disclosure
- Access to information about emissions into the environment according to the CJEU
- Problems of the System for Access to Private Sector Information
- Shortcomings of the public/private divide for access to environmental information
- No clear criteria to assimilate private entities to public authorities
- Deficiencies of corporate transparency
- The organic focus of access laws
- Overlapping between the definitions of ‘environmental information’ and ‘confidential business information’
- Cost-benefit analysis and other financial information
- Technical information about hazardous activities or products
- Chemical substances
- Health and safety data
- Environmental Impact Assessments and other relevant information on specific projects
- Geotechnical information and natural resource’s locations
- Inconsistencies in the applicable laws
- The current toolbox for solving conflicts between access to environmental information and the protection of CBI
- Proposal to Reform Access to Environmental Information
- Matrix of Values
- Integrated contextual analysis instead of ‘balancing of interests’
- Conclusions and Recommendations
- Colombia
- The US
- The EU