TY - JOUR
AU - Osher-Lahav, Hadas
AB - 438 YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW The new law provides legal remedies including an appeal to this agency if a request for environmental information is rejected by any institution on a state or local level or if the applicant is not satisfied with the response. However, when a request for environmental information is rejected for reasons of secrecy, the applicant may institute administrative court proceedings (Article 34). Another important amendment is an extension of the deadline in response to a request for access to information to fifteen working days (previously, the institutions were obliged to submit a response within eight days). However, instead of harmoniz- ing its provisions with Article 4.4(2) of the Aarhus Convention, which states that the grounds for refusal shall be interpreted in a restrictive way, taking into account public interest served by disclosure and taking into account whether the information requested relates to emissions into the environment, the new Law on Free Access to Information enables a public body to refuse a request for environmental information by allowing the organization to ‘restrict’ the access to information (Article 14). ´ ´ Maja Kostic-Mandic doi:10.1093/yiel/yvt035 (1) Law on Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) One of the 
TI - 11. Israel
JF - Yearbook of International Environmental Law
DO - 10.1093/yiel/yvt037
DA - 2013-11-30
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/11-israel-E30uesH70M
SP - 438
EP - 441
VL - 23
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -