Legal Protection For The Right To Know Environmental Information

With the worldwide environmental problems have become increasingly prominent, public participation in environmental protection, it put forward to the realization of the right to know for increasing awareness of the environment;the development of democracy and the legal environment provided a theoretical basis for the realization of the right to know the environment.Protect the public right to know the environment is a necessary requirement for service-oriented government, to safeguard the public's environmental rights and interests, and promote the environment an important aspect of the democratic process, but also China's environmental legal system with the world in the world.With the sovereignty of the people, corporate social responsibility and environmental democracy-depth theoretical study and practice of the new legislation and changes in the law,waiting for us to know further research on the environment ,and protection of the rights to make the necessary amendments to improve on.Based on the research background and from how to start to achieve the public right to know the environment, We make the environment the theme of the legal protection of the right to know. The basic problem of right to know is not solved, how citizens access to information? What information should be made public? How to access to information and procedures for provide? And how to start right to relief for inadequate information disclosure? Why the stakeholders Government and business protect the right to know delayed, etc, these not addressed problems made the environment right to know also not be effective protection. Impacting the environmental information disclosure system and the legislative process. The first of the article made a systematic analysis of the basic theory environment to know, pointing out that the environment should be as basic civil rights to know that a legal definition of a clear right to know the legal status of the environment and the public participation in environmental protection and play a fundamental role for improving the environmental information. Taking into account the environment is a right to know the proposed international conventions has become an overseas environmental protection work important features. Some developed countries through the establishment of a special form of environmental information disclosure law it has a more operational in practice. It has a good reference on the legal protection of our environment. China's planning and innovation on the right to know legislation by learning the advanced experience of foreign countries, we proposed to build the legal protection of the environment to know some basic measures, focusing on legislation to protect from the program sum up experience and promote environmental information disclosure of law throughout the development.