Dreptul la informație privind calitatea aerului atmosferic: actualitate și perspective de reglementare juridică [Articol]

Abstract

RM legislation contains a variety of regulations which guarantee access to correct information about the environment, but this provisions it is difficult to implement in practice and as a result, population have inefficient information about the real air pollution level. At the same time, these provisions do not comply to the requirements of the International Conventions and EU Directives in terms of public information. In the context of RM legislation reforming towards its harmonization with the EU legislation, author consider, the most optimal for EU directives implementation in RM seems to be the development and adoption of the specific Law on ambient air quality,that would facilitateto promote policies aimed at reducing pollution to levels which minimize harmful effects on human health, paying particular attention to sensitive populations, and the environment as a whole, to improve the monitoring and assessment of air quality including the deposition of pollutants and to provide information to the public.