The objective of the Common Legal Drafting Rules for the Portuguese-speaking countries and regions project is clear: the determination of common rules and standards for legal drafting in the Portuguese-speaking legal systems. The idea is to take advantage of the common basis present in all the legal systems with a Lusophone basis to, in an...
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The EU‘s compliance with environmental law standards established in the Aarhus Convention: coming together or drifting apart?
The EU is a Party to the Aarhus Convention (the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters), which establishes a set of environmental law standards in those areas. While implementing the Convention, the EU sometimes went beyond but other times has fallen short of the standards...