Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-03-Speech-1-160"
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"Mr President, the EU has problems with its image. There is all too little transparency, and it is too hard for committed citizens to participate in the decision-making process, as the previous speaker so eloquently described. The Aarhus Convention, governing the conditions for participation by NGOs in the environmental legislation process, has addressed this issue. This splendid Convention has been ratified by all the Member States, but clearly has not been implemented as it properly should have been. Now it is the EU that is to ensure that this legislation is implemented. There have been many problems achieving this state of affairs on a basis that is merely more or less consistent, but so numerous have been the improvements introduced as a result of the second reading that we in the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance will support the proposal, even though it is far indeed from being as good as it could have been if the EU had lived up to its own fine words about being there for the people. It is, however, a pity that the Commission’s clear text on access for NGOs to the European Court of Justice has been watered down by the Council and by Parliament. It is now not at all clear whether this access actually exists. We hope, however, that future cases will work out in favour of the NGOs, and thus of the EU."@en1
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