The Costs Protection (Aarhus Convention) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017
These Regulations amend the Costs Protection (Aarhus Convention) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (the 2013 Regulations) which provide costs protection for judicial reviews and statutory reviews to the High Court of a decision, act or omission all or part of which is subject to the provisions of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters. The Public Participation Directive (Directive 2003/35/EC on public participation in respect of the drawing up of certain plans and programmes relating to the environment) implemented the Convention requirement that the review procedures for certain environmental decisions must not be prohibitively expensive.