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Education at Universities; Environmental Pollution and its Impact;
Environmental Technologies; Ecology, Nature Protection; Environment
and Economy; Environmental Management; Environment and
Sustainable Development (both Latvian and English). The textbook
“Environment and Sustainable Development” was published in both
English and Latvian, and was distributed to universities in the Baltic Sea
Region, the USA, Australia, Africa and Asia [22].
3.3 Environmental Consultative Council
The Environmental Consultative Council is an advisory and
coordinating institution whose operation is aimed at promoting participation
of the public in development and implementation of the
environment policy. The Environmental Consultative Council unites nongovernmental
organisation for performing the following functions in
cooperation with state institutions and scientists: promotion of drafting of
regulatory acts and environment planning documents on issues related to
the environment policy; encouragement of cooperation and information
exchange in the area of environment among individuals and in the public,
as well as state authorities and municipalities. Information on projects
lobbied by the Council, its working groups and proposed changes in
norms is publicly accessible on the Internet at the website of the
environment and regulation development.
The Council has the following tasks: to provide proposals on draft
regulatory acts and draft policy planning documents, as well as draft
international legal acts of the European Union related to the
environmental policy to the Ministry of Environment and other line
ministries in compliance to the public interest; to provide information to
public on topicalities in the area of environment by placing information on
the website of the Ministry of Environment.
Rights of the Council:
● to request information needed for the operation of the Council and
available to the Ministry of Environment and institutions under its
supervision from them;
● to form working groups for preparation of issues and draft documents
to be reviewed at the Council meetings, and to involve experts –
specialists of the relevant field;
● to invite officials of the Ministry of Environment and experts of various
fields to the Council meetings;
● to authorise the Council representative to express the Council opinion
at the state and municipal institutions;
● to inform the public on topicalities in the field of environment [16].
The public can become involved in the work of the Council via nongovernmental
organisations. Possibilities of non-governmental organisations
are quite broad:
● To defend signed international conventions and contribute to their
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