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Legislation

Note: Below are links to what are considered to be the most important legislation with regard to public participation. To access other laws and legislation about the topic, please visit Ecolegis, the environmental legal data-base of Latin America and the Caribean and Central and Eastern Europe.

International Agreements

The Aarhus Convention
The Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) was adopted at the fourth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" in Aarhus, Denmark, on 25 June 1998. Thirty-nine countries and the European Community have since signed it.

Agenda 21
Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and major groups in every area in which humans impact on the environment.

American Convention of Human Rights. San Jose Agreement of Costa Rica.
Signed in San José, Costa Rica, November 22, 1969, at the Interamerican Conference on Human Rights.

American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man.
Sanctioned at the Ninth International Conference of American States in Bogotá, Colombia, 1948.

Dublin Declaration on Access to Environmental Information
Signed by the UNEP Infoterra representatives meeting in Dublin, Ireland, from September 11-14, 2000.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) 16 of December 1966.

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) 16 of December 1966.

ISP: Inter-American Strategy for the Promotion of Public Participation in Decision Making for Sustainable Development
A strategy developed by the OEA/UDSMA and adopted by the Interamerican Counsel for Integrated Development, in Resolution CIDI/RES 98 (V-0/00), April 20, 2000.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Declaration approved and sanctioned at the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948.

Local Legislation

Argentina: Ley 303/99:
Ley de Información Ambiental / Environmental Information Law
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/3347.html

Argentina: Ley 6/98:
Audiencias Públicas / Public Inquiry Law
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/2905.html

Argentina: Ley 229/99:
Audiencias Públicas - Modificación / Ammendment to the Public Inquiry Law
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/3404.html

Argentina: Ley 123/98:
Ley de Evaluación del Impacto Ambiental / Environmental Impact Assessment Law
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/2980.html

Argentina: Ley 104/98:
Acceso a la Información / Access to Information
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/2984.html

Argentina: Ley 3/98:
Defensoría del Pueblo - Creación / Ombudsman - Creation
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/3403.html

Argentina: Ley 3.764/92:
Libre acceso a las fuentes de información y publicidad de los actos de gobierno / Free Access to Government Information and Publications.
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/2920.html

Argentina: Ordenanza 769/03: Audiencias Públicas Municipales / Municipal Public Hearings
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/4511.html

Argentina: Ordenanza 1.970/04: Libre Acceso a la Información Pública Ambiental / Free Access to Public Environmental Information
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/4499.html

Argentina: Ordenanza 2.474/02: Libre Acceso a la Información / Free Access to Information
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/4409.html

Argentina: Ordenanza 6.058/02: Participación Ciudadana en el Presupuesto Municipal de Obras Públicas / Citizen Participation in Public Works' Municipal Budgets
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/4307.html

Argentina: Ordenanza 6.059/02: Ampliación del Reglamento del H. Consejo Deliberante de Guaymallén / Ammendment of the by-laws of Guaymallén Town Hall
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/4310.html

Argentina: Ordenanza 6.060/02: Libre Acceso a la Información Municipal de Guaymallén / Free Access to Guaymallén Municipal Information
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/4309.html

Argentina: Ordenanza 6.099/02: Instrumentos de Participación Ciudana en el Ambito del Departamento de Guaymallén / Citizen Participation Tools within Guaymallén District Ambit
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/4308.html

Argentina: Resolución 255/94:
Información que deberán suministrar las empresas inscriptas en la ley de Inversiones Mineras / Information to be submited by businesses outlined in the Law of Mining Investments.
www.farn.org.ar/bd/ecolegis/tc/1640.html

Bolivia: Ley 1702:
Ley de Participción Popular -Modificaciones y Ampliaciones / Public Participation Law - Updating
www.congreso.gov.bo/11leyes/leyes/1702.htm

Bolivia: Ley 1551:
Ley de Participación Popular / Public Participation Law
www.congreso.gov.bo/11leyes/leyes/1551.htm

 

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