S.L. 549.39 Art. 1Citation and scope.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment Regulations.

(2) The purpose of these regulations is:

(a) to guarantee the right of access to environmental information held by or for public authorities and to set out the basic terms and conditions of, and practical arrangements for, its exercise;

(b) to ensure that, as a matter of course, environmental information is progressively made available and disseminated to the public in order to achieve the widest possible systematic availability and dissemination to the public of environmental information; and

(c) to transpose Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information.