Ensuring Access to Environmental Information

Search decisions

The role of the Commissioner for Environmental Information is to carry out independent reviews of decisions made by public authorities on requests for environmental information.

Recent Decisions

Right To Know CLG and Department of Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) The Commissioner found that, while article 9(2)(c) did apply to the draft Guidelines, the public interest in the disclosure of those Guidelines outweighed the interest served by their refusal. As such, he directed their release Read more

Mr. X and Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (the Department) The Commissioner found that it was reasonable to conclude that no relevant environmental information was held by or for the Department following its carrying out of adequate searches and thus, article 7(5) of the AIE regulations applied Read more