{"id":11928,"date":"2025-11-10T13:06:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ambientalex.com\/?p=11928"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:25:05","slug":"environmental-access-rights-stronger-judicial-protection-for-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambientalex.com\/en\/environmental-access-rights-stronger-judicial-protection-for-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Access Rights: Stronger Judicial Protection for Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Case law on&nbsp;<strong>public access to environmental information<\/strong>&nbsp;continues to consolidate in favour of transparency and public participation. In its judgment&nbsp;<strong>No. 1537 of 3 November 2025<\/strong>, the&nbsp;<strong>TAR Piedmont<\/strong>&nbsp;ruled that data on the&nbsp;<strong>emissions of an industrial facility<\/strong>&nbsp;fall within the definition of environmental information under Legislative Decree No. 195\/2005. Therefore, public authorities cannot deny access to such data by invoking privacy or trade secret protections, except in cases where the request is manifestly unreasonable or overly generic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, in judgment\u00a0<strong>No. 853\/2025<\/strong>, the\u00a0<strong>TAR Marche<\/strong>\u00a0upheld a claim by an environmental association seeking access to documents concerning\u00a0<strong>odorous emissions<\/strong>, recognising that odour pollution constitutes a form of atmospheric pollution relevant for the purposes of access rights. The court ordered the regional authority to disclose the requested data within thirty days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These rulings strengthen the trend towards a broad interpretation of\u00a0<strong>environmental access rights<\/strong>, consistent with the principles of the\u00a0<strong>Aarhus Convention<\/strong>, reaffirming the role of environmental information as a key instrument for transparency, public oversight and environmental protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent judgments by the Regional Administrative Courts of Piedmont and Marche confirm a growing judicial trend in favour of full public access to environmental data. 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