Europeanisation of Access to Justice in Environmental Matters

Bojana Todorovic is Lecturer in Administrative Law at the University of Belgrade, Serbia.Roberto Caranta is Professor of Law at the University of Turin, Italy.

• Introduction, Bojana Todorovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) and Roberto Caranta (University of Turin, Italy)Part I: Access to Justice in Environmental Matters at the European Level: Instruments of Europeanisation1. Article 9 of the Aarhus Convention, its Transposition in the EU and its Interpretation by the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee and the Court of Justice of the European Union: In Search of an ‘EU Effect’? Mariolina Eliantonio (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) and Justine Richelle (Hasselt University, Belgium)2. The Impact of the Right of Access to Justice under the Aarhus Convention on the Greening of the European Court of Human Rights, Carmen Plaza (Complutense University, Spain)3. Environmental Access to Justice in the Balkans Through the Lens of EU Enlargement: Between Top-down and Bottom-up Europeanisation, Bojana Todorovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)Part II: National Perspectives: Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in Selected Balkan Countries4. Environmental Justice Accessibility in Albania, Franc Terihati (Centre for Legal Empowerment, Albania)5. Implementation of Article 9 of the Aarhus Convention in Croatia: Is the Door Open or Shut? Examining Barriers to Access to Justice, Lana Ofak (University of Zagreb, Croatia) and Marko Turudic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)6. The Implementation of the Aarhus Convention in the Republic of North Macedonia: Limited Tools and Capacity for Environmental Justice, Frosina Antonovska Joskoska (Climate Action Network Europe, North Macedonia) and Konstantin Bitrakov (University in Skopje, North Macedonia)7. The Aarhus Convention in Romania: Challenges Regarding Access to Justice and Actio Popularis, Gheorghe-Sorin Lodoaba-Cordon, Dacian C Dragos and Bogdana Neamtu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)8. The Greening of General and Special Administrative Procedures to Implement the Aarhus Convention: The Case of Serbia, Mirjana Drenovak-Ivanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)9. Access to Justice in Environmental Matters from the Perspective of Slovenian Law, Katja Štemberger Brizani (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)Part III: Comparative Assessment10. Administrative Review as an Instrument to Enforce Article 9 of the Aarhus Convention, Giacomo Gattinara (University of Rome, Italy)11. A Comparative Perspective on Environmental Access to Justice in the Balkans: The Role of Europeanisation and the Rising Importance of Rights, Roberto Caranta (University of Turin, Italy) and Bojana Todorovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)