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1. Considering the relevance
of the environmental situation in a planetary scale.
2. Considering that the environment is part of the human being
and, essentially, a condition of anthropological character.
3. Considering that, being the environment part of the human
being, culture exerts a preponderant function in relation to
the ideas of Nature, environment, present, past and future.
4. Considering the concept of Europe, as a dynamic set of different
nations, cultures and histories, defending the principles established
in the United Nations Chart of Human Rights.
5. Considering the principle of tribunal, whose etymological
origin unveils us the idea of tribune, of a dynamic set of debates
and discussions.
6. Considering that the only and effective judgment in environmental
terms is that which emanates from each person, constituting,
in this way, the principle of Law, fully supported by the concept
of ethos.
7. Considering that, face to the exposed above, the only effective
form to establish an environmental tribunal is the creation of
an active and permanent forum of debates, of intercommunication
and free information.
8. Considering that each person, being part of Nature, has the
duty to do not impose its destruction to another person or alive
being.
9. Considering that such a duty implicates the plain knowledge
of its subject.
10. Considering that under the Article 21 of the United Nations
Declaration on the Human Environment, dated of 1972, in Stockholm,
the States have the "responsibility to make sure that the
activities under their jurisdiction or control will not produce
damage to the environment of other States or in areas beyond
the limits of the national jurisdiction" - and that such
responsibility is present in daily activities of individuals.
11. Considering that the world is strongly interdependent and
that a damage in a country means prejudice not only to other
States or to areas beyond the limits of its national jurisdiction,
but also to the whole planet.
12. Considering that the Article 30, of 1974, of the Resolution
of the United Nations General Assembly, known as the Chart of
Economic Rights and Duties of the States, declares that all States
are responsible for the protection, preservation and improvement
of the environment for the present and future generations - but,
considering, still, that those protection, preservation and improvement
can not be imposed and can not be effectively applied without
an active participation of each person.
13. And, finally, considering and reaffirming that all effective
action at an ecological level presupposes an active participation
of each person, that are much beyond of repressive mechanisms
that act only on the surface of the facts.
It is decided to re-found the
European Environmental Tribunal, whose mission will be:
To constitute a privileged forum for the observation, the debate,
the intercommunication and free information about environmental
and cultural questions.
Principles
Art 1
It will not exist in the European Environmental Tribunal any
determination or posture that can limit the participation in
its activities of people, facing to their race, gender, nationality,
religion or activity.
Art 2
The European Environmental Tribunal will have, among its fundamental
characteristics, that of an Observatory.
Art 3
The European Environmental Tribunal will not establish judgments
or sentences, but will provide, by all possible means to it,
the support to the free communication about all facts related
to the environment.
Art 4
The environment will always be considered as part of culture.
Art 5
The participants of the European Environmental Tribunal must,
in maximum possible, reflect the human and cultural diversity,
and a transdisciplinary, a transcultural and a transnational
character should design the constitution of its structure.
Art 6
A president, two vice presidents, directors, international advisors
and independent members will constitute the European Environmental
Tribunal.
Art 7
The European Environmental Tribunal will try, by all means in
its possibility, to support and promote the publishing of books,
papers, sites in Internet, meetings, congresses and all forms
that make possible the full realization of the established in
the articles 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Art 8
The European Environmental Tribunal will not, in any case, associate
itself, by any mean, or even identify itself, in any time or
place, with any political tendency, any political party, any
religion, sect or religious system, any ideology, or groups of
people that, by any mean, establish, directly or indirectly,
any type of sectarianism.
Art 9
The president, vice presidents and directors of the European
Environmental Tribunal should not have any legal action against
themselves, individually or not; should not be condemned by any
Court - save exception approved by qualified majority of the
European Environmental Tribunal members. In such a case, the
person object of the submission will have no right to vote.
Art 10
All voting made in the ambit of the European Environmental Tribunal
will be secret, without exceptions.
Art 11
Each member of the European Environmental Tribunal must have
a social behaviour not in conflict with the defence of the local,
regional or world environment.
Art 12
The European Environmental Tribunal
is not allowed to contract or buy any kind of goods or services
when the necessary amount for those acts will surpass the limit
of 80% of its financial reserves.
Art 13
The alteration of these Statutes
will only be possible with the votes of the qualified majority
of vice-presidents and directors, later approved by the president.
Art 14
The names of the first Presidents
will remain even after their disappearance. In such case, the
new President will occupy the chair with that name.
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