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This new directive makes it binding on Member States to provide the public with access to environmental information held by the authorities, in terms arising from a compromise reached between the Council and Parliament, which I think is acceptable.
In short, the joint text lays down:
the obligation for public authorities to actively assist citizens in their search for information, encouraging them to use the new technologies to answer their requests;
quality standards designed to ensure that the information supplied is up-to-date, accurate and reliable;
the principle that information should be provided to the public free of charge, although it has been accepted that a charge can be made, restricted to ‘a reasonable amount’.
Because this compromise strengthens the citizens’ right to obtain information from national, regional or local authorities, specifically in the event of river contamination, the construction of new projects or the destruction of natural habitats of protected species of flora or fauna, thereby increasing transparency in areas of common interest, I could only vote in favour of this report."@en1
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