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The Development of the Right to Public Participation in Environmental Matters as a New Concept of Administrative Decision Making in Serbia

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title The Development of the Right to Public Participation in Environmental Matters as a New Concept of Administrative Decision Making in Serbia
 
Creator DRENOVAK-IVANOVIC, Mirjana; Assistant Professor, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
 
Subject administrative decision making, development of the right to public participation, general administrative procedure, environmental impact assessment.
 
Description In recent years, environmental law and pol-icy have undergone a change of governance models, shifting from central state, top-down regulation to more transparent, local decision making structures involving private companies, non-governmental organizations, concerned cit-izens and interest groups. The Aarhus Conven-tion became a part of the Serbian legal system in 2009. Its provisions not only strengthen third-par-ty rights to participate, but furthermore oblige state authorities to be active in involving citizens in environmental decisions. The question arises about the extent of consequences of this devel-opment at the international level for the national legal system.Analysis of the implementation of the Gen-eral Administrative Procedural Act (GAPA) and the Law on Environmental Protection in Serbia shows that social actors used to be allowed to participate in citizen’s forums and decision mak-ing in environmental matters, and their role was important only if they were directly and individu-ally concerned. This situation changed partially in 2004 with the adoption of new laws. The article examines recent cases in which the public and public concerned were not able to participate in environmental decision making, even though the law stipulated such a possibility. The article examines the consequences of implementing a new model, where representatives of collective interests would be able to infuence environmen-tal decision making, proposed by the Draft of the new GAPA.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
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Date 2015-02-15
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/426
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2015: Issue No. 44 E/February; 74-90
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/426/416
 
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