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What is Information Relating to Emissions into the Environment?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2017

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Footnotes

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ClientEarth, Belgium, vbuonsante@clientearth.org.

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ClientEarth, Belgium, afriel@clientearth.org.

References

1 Convention on access to information, public participation in decision‐making and access to justice in environmental matters – Declarations [2005] OJ L 124/4.

2 Case C-673/13 P Commission v Stichting Greenpeace Nederland and PAN Europe EU:C:2016:889.

3 Case C-442/14 Bayer CropScience and Stichting De Bijenstichting EU:C:2016:890.

4 Charles M Benbrook, “Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally” (2016) 28:3 Environmental Sciences Europe, available at enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-016-0070-0, accessed 3 May 2017.

5 European Food Safety Authority, “Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance glyphosate” (2015) 13(11) EFSA Journal 4302, doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2015.4302 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Guyton, et al., on behalf of the International Agency for Research on Cancer Monograph Working Group, “Carcinogenicity of tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon, and glyphosate” (2015) 16(5) The Lancet Oncology 490 CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.

7 Case C-673/13 P Commission v Stichting Greenpeace Nederland and PAN Europe EU:C:2016:889, para. 54.

8 ibid para. 62.

9 Art. 4(4)(d), Aarhus Convention, supra note 1.

10 Stichting Greenpeace Nederland, supra note 2, para. 75.

11 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 485/2013 of 24 May 2013 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, as regards the conditions of approval of the active substances clothianidin, thiamethoxam and imidacloprid, and prohibiting the use and sale of seeds treated with plant protection products containing those active substances [2013] OJ L 139/12.

12 Stichting Greenpeace Nederland, supra note 2, para. 62; Bayer CropScience, supra note 3, para. 72.

13 Stichting Greenpeace Nederland, supra note 2, para. 75; Bayer CropScience, supra note 3, paras. 78 and 79.

14 ibid.

15 Stichting Greenpeace Nederland, supra note 2, para. 80; Bayer CropScience, supra note 3, para. 85.

16 Bayer CropScience, supra note 3, para. 86.

17 ibid para. 96.

18 ibid para. 91.

19 ibid para. 90.

20 Stichting Greenpeace Nederland, supra note 2, para. 75.

21 ibid para. 73.

22 ibid para. 80.

23 Case C-266/09 Stichting Natuur en Milieu EU:C:2010:546, Opinion of AG Kokott, para. 93. See also Case T-245/11 ClientEarth and International Chemical Secretariat v ECHA EU:T:2015:675, para. 211.

24 Art. 14 of Regulation 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) [2006] OJ L 396/1.