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Input on the preliminary document

At the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, the Declaration on the application of Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development was signed. In this Declaration, signatory countries committed, with the support of ECLAC as technical secretariat, to advance the implementation of a regional agreement for the full implementation of the rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice in environmental matters. Between 2012 and 2014, four meetings of the focal points of the signatory countries and fourteen meetings of working groups were held. In November 2014, the countries launched the negotiation phase of the regional agreement and established a Negotiating Committee with a view to concluding the negotiations by December 2017.

In the Santiago Decision, adopted at the fourth meeting of the focal points appointed by the Governments of the signatory countries to the Declaration on Principle 10 in Latin America and the Caribbean, it was agreed to request that ECLAC prepare a preliminary document on the regional instrument.

At the same time, it was agreed to invite countries and the interested public to submit input for the preliminary document by 31 December 2014. The input received can be found here.

At the first meeting of the negotiating committee of the regional agreement, held in Santiago from 5 to 7 May 2015, it was agreed that the countries would submit language proposals in relation to the preamble and articles 1 to 10 of the preliminary document by 31 August 2015. In addition, the public was invited to submit language proposals on the same provisions of the preliminary document to their governmental national focal points or to the secretariat by 31 August 2015.

To submit input to the secretariat please send it by e-mail to: principio10.laccepal.org.

The input submitted to the secretariat can be found below in the language it was received.
 

INPUT SENT BY COUNTRIES
Antigua and Barbuda     
Argentina   
Bolivia (Plur. State of)  
Brazil  
Chile   
Colombia   
Costa Rica   
Dominican Republic  
Ecuador  
El Salvador  
Guatemala   
Honduras  
Jamaica   
Mexico  
Panama   
Paraguay  
Peru   
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  
Trinidad and Tobago  
Uruguay  

 

INPUT SENT BY THE PUBLIC
Alianza Regional por la Libre Expresión e Información      
APHISEMA   
Caribbean Working Group on Principle 10   
Casa de la Paz, FIMA, PROACCESO, Zonta Internacional and Felipe Pizarro Venegas   
Causa Natura, A.C.   
EMLA   
Fórum Brasileiro de ONGs e Movimentos Sociais para o Meio Ambiente e Desenvolvimento   
Fundación Aguaclara   
Humberto Cordero   
Igor Gonçalves   
Instituto de Derecho Ambiental de Honduras   
Jerzy Jendroska   
Justice Institute Guyana Inc.   
Luis Tamayo, CIDHEM   
Ponciano Catrín   
Pronatura México, A.C.   
Public of Mexico   
Sociedad Peruana de Derecho Ambiental   
The Access Iniciative (TAI)   
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello - Universidad Santa María   
Universidad de Medellín - Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana