Protection of Environmental Human Rights in the Scope of European Union Law
Protection of Environmental Human Rights in the Scope of European Union Law

Summary/Abstract: European Union law enshrines altogether six environmental human rights. The first group of these rights is composed of substantive environmental human rights – right to environment, right to water and right to sanitation (right to safe hygienic conditions of environment). The second group represent three human procedural environmental rights – right of access to information on environment, right of public participation in decision-making in environmental matters, and right of access to justice in environmental matters. All mentioned rights originated in international public law. The research of mechanisms of the protection of these rights under European Union law is important today in view of the severe deterioration of the state of environment of in Europe and because European Union law includes somewhat better implementation mechanisms of its law compared with international public law. In the light of the above, European Union law is capable to make a significant contribution to clarifying the implementation, interpretation and implementation of human environmental rights in the legal orders of the Member States of the European Union. The aim of this article is therefore to identify enshrining human environmental rights in European Union law and mechanisms of the protection of these rights in European Union law.

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