Public Consultations & Review Procedure

Current public consultations open for submissions

Title	Closing date for submissions
EU Industrial Emissions Directive	29th June, 2012
Consultation on Policy Options for the Blueprint to Safeguard Europe's Water	7th June, 2012
Consultation on 'Smoky' Coal Ban	17th May, 2012
Consultation on the EU environment policy priorities for 2020: Towards a 7th EU Environment Action Programme	1st June, 2012

Recently closed public consultations

Title	Closing date for submissions
National Climate Policy Development Consultation	30th April, 2012
Guidance to Manage the Risk to Marine Mammals from Man-made Sound Sources in Irish Waters	27th April, 2012
Public Consultation on future GPP policies	3rd April, 2012
EU Consultation on Delivering more Sustainable Consumption and Production	3rd April, 2012

Judicial Review Procedure

Ireland is a signatory of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters. This is an international convention, which is implemented in the EU by two Directives;

Directive 2003/4/EC (http://www.ocei.gov.ie/en/AccesstoInformationontheEnvironment-LegislativeFramework/Directive20034EC/)on Public Access to Information on Environmental Matters and;
Directive 2003/35/EC (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32003L0035:EN:NOT) on Public Participation in respect of the Drawing up of Certain Plans and Programmes relating to the Environment

Under the provisions of Directive 2003/35/EC, members of the public are entitled to appeal relevant decisions of public bodies by way of judicial review.

Information on the judicial review procedure is available in the pdf document Judicial Review Procedure.