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Article 1

OBJECTIVE

in order to contribute to the protection of the right of every person of
present and future generations to live in an environment adequate to his or
her health and well-being, each Party shall guarantee the rights of access to
information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice in
environmental matters in accordance with the provisions of this Convention.

Article 2

DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of this Convention,

1. "Party" means, unless the text otherwise indicates, a Contracting Party
to this Convention;

2. "Public authority" means:

(a) Government at national, regional and other level;

(b) Natural or legal persons performing public administrative functions
under national law, including specific duties, activities or services in
relation to the environment;

(c) Any other natural or legal persons having public responsibilities or
functions, or providing public services, in relation to the environment, under
the control of a body or person falling within subparagraphs (a) or (b) above;

(d) The institutions of any regional economic integration organization
referred to in article 17 which is a Party to this Convention.

This definition does not include bodies or institutions acting in a judicial
or legislative capacity;
3. "Environmental information" means any information in written, visual,
aural, electronic or any other material form on:

(a) The state of elements of the environment, such as air and
atmosphere, water, soil, land, landscape and natural sites, biological
diversity and its components, including genetically modified organisms, and
the interaction among these elements;

(b) Factors, such as substances, energy, noise and radiation, and
activities or measures, including administrative measures, environmental
agreements, policies, legislation, plans and programmes, affecting or likely
to affect the elements of the environment within the scope of subparagraph (a)
above, and cost-benefit and other economic analyses and assumptions used in
environmental decision-making;

(c) The state of human health and safety, conditions of human life,
cultural sites and built structures, inasmuch as they are or may be affected

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