Konwencja z Aarhus jako przedmiot i wzorzec hierarchicznej kontroli norm

The Aarhus Convention is an international agreement ratified by Poland, the essence of which is the obligation of the parties to introduce into the national legal order solutions guaranteeing access to information relating to the environment, public participation in decision-making processes affecting the state and level of the environmental protection and access to justice in these matters. The powers under the Aarhus Convention, despite its legal rank higher than that of a law, are not used in practice due to the lack of self-enforcement of the Convention. The author's intention is to indicate potential possibilities of taking its provisions into account in the process of law application by administrative courts and in the process of hierarchical control of norms by the Constitutional Court.