Accesul la informaţia de mediu – un drept fundamental al omului [Articol]

Abstract

Environmental information should be comprehensively defined as any written, visual, audio or electronic information, or which takes any other material form, relating to the state of environmental elements, factors influencing the environment, environmental measures and activities, economic study and costs – benefit applied to natural resources, the impact on human health as well as on the cultural heritage of a society. In the Republic of Moldova, access to environmental information is a fundamental human right, enshrined in art. 37 of the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova, as well as by the new Law no. 148/2023 regarding access to information of public interest. Also, the Republic of Moldova ratified the Convention on Access to Information, Justice and Public Participation in Environmental Decision- Making, signed in Aarhus, Denmark, on June 25, 1998, this essentially guarantees the right of every person to free access and the dissemination of information truthful regarding the state of the natural environment. In the context of the development of a sustainable economy, the influence of climate change as well as the interest present in society for the correspondence of legislation to EU standards, access to environmental information has become valued not only as a right, but also as a civic responsibility of each of us, environmental conditions directly influence both our health and the quality of our lives both now and in the future.