The position of the Aarhus Convention on Access to, Collection and Dissemination of Environmental Information

The Aarhus Convention was adopted in 1998 to provide environmental information for public, participation of public in the environmental decision and ensure recourse the public to justice in this regard, that they essentially came to codify the principles that supporting human right in clean environment, protection and prevention of pollution, so the situation of the Convention is supported to the position of international, regional ) مجل جامع الاىباز للعل وْ القاى ىْ اّلط أض - العدد الثالث عػس - المجلد الثإى - الطی ) 2017 92 organizations and others which call to allow for public to follow what happened on change in the world especially in the environment sector The Aarhus Convention has sought to establish general rules to organize mechanism for the purpose of responding public requests to give the environmental information, by focus on environmental information on the Convention and the role of public authorities in the countries to help their community to give the information and organize the information and Convention guidance to competent authorities with legal and practical steps to achieve desired, Taking into consideration the security concerns, the rights of others and other specific considerations when deciding on requests for access to environmental information. On the other hand The Aarhus Convention obliging States parties, to collect the information according to the rules of account registers and lists of inventory on a scientific basis, to be ready for deployment to community by available means like electronic and other social media, besides the focus on information of pollution and prevention of pollution and waste disposal sites.