Sandor Fulop , president Environmental Management and Law Association (EMLA)

The rights and interests of future generations and the Hungarian attepts to represent and

protect them

Sandor Fulop, presidentEnvironmental Management and Law

Association (EMLA)

Content

• Intergernerational justice and sustainable development

• The history of the Hungarian experiment• Clarification & Networking• Similar organisations in other countries• The ombudsman institution in the system of

public participation

Intergernerational justice and sustainable development

• From the Brundtland Commission definition• to the Rio+20 „The Future we Want”• Sustainable development at Kramer• that opens the gate for Balaton Group ideas• The system approach: flows and stocks,

hierarchy• and the system of sustainable development in

Rio+20

The history of the Hungarian experiment

• The fight of an NGO, Védegylet (Protect the Future) and the 2007 political stalemate

• Recruitment, 2+1 functions, legal tools and their use

• Results• The FGO turned out system alien or the system is

alien?• The compromise in the constitution, the half

empty (full) glass

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Without the Office ofthe Future Generations Ombudsman

the gene-bank of Érd would have disappeared

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the Hungarian public water utilities would have been

privatized

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a huge straw-fired power plant would have been

established in the World Heritage of Tokaj region

8


a shopping mall and a parking lot would have

been replaced the protected

peat-bog of Dunakeszi

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an oversized golf-course and housing estate would have been built on high quality cropland near Páty

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the right of public participation in decision-making would have been violated several times

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the act on world heritage would not be in force

(Tokaj, Erzsébetváros, Anker köz)

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the waste utilization factory of the Borsod Metalworks

would still be polluting

13


we would not know, where the price of

Kyoto quotes can be found

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the Red Bull Air Race would still

endanger the protected site

15


the noise emitted by the Mohács Cardboard

Factory would still disturb the rest of the

neighbourhood

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large military radar station would have

been constructed next to the residential area

of the city of Pécs

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no one would be aware of the fact that in a kindergaten by the highway M3 the noise and air pollution limits are not observed

Clarification & Networking

• A self deceiving world, a social level denial• Systematic problems, systematic solutions• Added value, comparative advantage to the

administrative bodies: several administrative, several legal branches, several sciences

• Networking with clients, networking with scientists and authorities (e.g. the Danube ecological service; or the gene bank projects)

Similar organisations in other countries

• The New Jersey chief environmental prosecutor (1990-94)

• The New Zealand environmental commissioner (1987-)

• The Israeli future generation parliamentary commissioner (2000-2006)

• The Welsh, French, Maltese, Belgian, Norvegian initiatives – so far

• The wouldbe global high commissioner for FG

The ombudsman institution in the system of public participation

• Ombudsman procedure as an extraordinary legal remedy

• The ombudsman as a capacity building tool• Networking with environmental NGOs• Active and passive information dissemination

– the communication policy of the FGO• Participation in the decision-making

procedure of the environmental ombudsman

Sandor Fulop , president Environmental Management and Law Association (EMLA)

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