Protocole sur les registres des rejets et transferts de polluants à la Convention sur l'accès à l'information, la participation du public au processus décisionnel et l'accès à la justice en matière d'environnement

Titre (Anglais)

Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to the Convention on Access to Information, Public-Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

Titre (Autre)

Protokoll über Schadstofffreisetzungs- und Verbringungsregister

Lieu d'adoption

Kiev

Dépositaire

NU Nations Unies

Langue

Anglais, Français, Russe

Entrée en vigueur

Oct 8, 2009

Sujet

Environnement gén.

Mot clé

Éducation Substances dangereuses Accès-à-la-justice Qualité de l'air/pollution de l'air Règlement des différends Déchets dangereux Eaux usées/déversement Mise en application Enregistrement Accès-à-l'information Participation du public Renforcement des capacités Procédures judiciaires/procédures administratives Collecte de données/déclarations

Résumé

Objective: To enhance public access to information through the establishment of coherent, integrated, nation-wide pollutant release and transfer registers (PRTRs) which could facilitate public participation in environmental decision-making as well as contribute to the prevention and reduction of pollution of the environment.

Summary of Provisions: Article 3 sets the general provisions of this Protocol and in particular specifies that each party is to be guided by the precautionary approach in its implementation. The core elements of the publicly accessible national PRTR system that each Party undertakes to establish are set forth in article 4, while article 5 specifies elements of design and structure. In particular, Parties ensure that the data held on the register are presented in both aggregated and non-aggregated form so that releases and transfers can be searched and identified according inter alia to facility, activity, operator or pollutant/waste. Moreover, each Party is to ensure that its register includes information on release of certain pollutants, off-site transfers and releases of pollutants from diffuse sources (art.6.1). Parties are to require owners or operators of each facility that undertakes an activity specified in Annex I of the Protocol to submit certain specified information if the release or transfer of pollutants exceeds certain thresholds (art.7). Parties undertake to ensure that the information required to be incorporated in its register is publicly available (art. 8.1) and that the public can access the information without an interest having to be stated and free of charge (art.11). However, Parties may authorise the competent authority to keep information held on the register confidential under certain conditions listed in article 12. They undertake to ensure that any person who considers that his or her request for information has been inadequately answered, has access to a review procedure before a court of law or another independent and impartial body established by law (art. 14). Finally, Parties are to promote public awareness of its register (art. 15) and cooperate and assist each other (art. 16)

Institutional mechanisms: Article 17 establishes a Meeting of the Parties. The Meeting of the Parties is to keep under continuous review the implementation and development of this Protocol on the basis of regular reporting by the Parties (art. 17.2). The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe is to carry out certain secretariat functions under the Protocol including the preparation and servicing of the sessions, the transmission to the Parties of reports and other information received (art. 21). At its first session, the Meeting of the Parties is to establish cooperative procedures and institutional arrangements of a non-judicial, non-adversarial and consultative nature to assess and promote compliance and to address cases of non- compliance (art. 22).

(Source: IUCN ELC, 08.2005)

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Références - Traités

Cite

Convention de Stockholm sur les pollutants organiques persistents

Traité | Multilatéral | Stockholm | Sep 21, 2001

Mot clé: Renforcement des capacités, Règlement des différends, Mise en application, Accès-à-l'information, Émissions

Source: IUCN (ID: TRE-001338)

Convention concernant le contrôle des mouvements transfrontières de déchets dangereux et leur élimination

Traité | Multilatéral | Basel | Avr 5, 1989

Mot clé: Déchets dangereux, Infractions/sanctions, Responsabilité/indemnisation, Collecte de données/déclarations, Recyclage/réemploi, Transfert de technologie, Transport/dépôt, Mouvement transfrontière des déchets, Règlement des différends, Mise en application, Procédures judiciaires/procédures administratives, Gestion des déchets, Élimination de déchets, Lutte contre la pollution

Source: IUCN (ID: TRE-001003)

Habilité par

Convention sur l'access à l'information, la participation du public au processus décisionnel et l'access à la justice en matière d'environnement

Traité | Multilatéral | Aarhus | Jui 25, 1998

Mot clé: Éducation, Participation du public, Accès-à-l'information, Règlement des différends, Collecte de données/déclarations, Procédures judiciaires/procédures administratives

Source: IUCN (ID: TRE-001276)