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Fixing The Cec Submissions Procedure: Are The 2012 Revisions Up To The Task?, John H. Knox
Fixing The Cec Submissions Procedure: Are The 2012 Revisions Up To The Task?, John H. Knox
Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal
The citizen submissions procedure of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) celebrates its twentieth birthday this year. After a promising childhood, the procedure has had a stormy adolescence, vexed by accusations of ineffectiveness, bias, and delay. In 2012, the CEC adopted revisions to the procedure that promise to improve its timeliness, but do little or nothing to address its other problems. As the procedure enters its twenties, settled maturity is still a distant prospect. Created in 1993 by the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), a tri-national agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the United States, the submissions …
Understanding Canada's Responses To Citizen Submissions Under The Naaec, Chris Tollefson, Anthony Ho
Understanding Canada's Responses To Citizen Submissions Under The Naaec, Chris Tollefson, Anthony Ho
Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal
The North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) is a side-agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), to which the United States, Canada, and Mexico are signatory parties (Parties). A central feature of the NAAEC is its citizen submission on enforcement matters (SEM) process, by which citizens and citizen groups from any of the three signatory countries can call on the NAAEC Secretariat to consider whether a Party is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws. To date, there have been eighty-one citizen submissions filed against the three Parties. Much of the scholarship surrounding the SEM process has …