The Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) requests the contracting parties to promote environmental education and environmental awareness among the public, especially on how to obtain access to information, to participate in decision-making and to obtain access to justice in environmental matters. The new European Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information implementing the Convention on a European level contains a similar provision. The objective of the project is to inform the German citizens about their rights under the Convention by means of a brochure in order to enable them to perform these rights.

To fulfil the obligations under the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) and the obligations under the European Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information, the German Federal Ministry of the Environment is preparing a brochure that will inform the German citizens about their rights under the Convention and will enable them to perform these rights. Ecologic is preparing the text for this brochure as well as the text for the Ministry's webpage on the Aarhus Convention.