ABSTRACT
Since the millennium, several environmental protection legislative initiatives have been undertaken at EC level, which over the next few years are set to introduce important new procedural as well as substantive rights for private persons to be able to assist in the enforcement of EC environmental legislation at national level. The initiatives enhance both rights of access to national administrative and judicial procedures bodies as well as rights to access information on the environment. As such, they are set to serve as an important addition to the growing body of jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice on general procedural and substantive rights that flow from EC law, discussed in the previous two chapters. The current chapter will focus on assessing the contribution that this recent wave of legislative instrumentation is to make in terms of enhancing a private person’s access to environmental justice under EC law.
