EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL
      TRIBUNAL

      
an active exercise of
      planetary citizenship

 
statutes

      
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, taking the environment as an essential part
      of the human being, culture exerts a preponderant function in
      relation to 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 transnational, transdisciplinary and
      transcultural 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 (also in immaterial terms)
      to another person or alive being.


      


      9. Considering that such a duty implicates the 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 (also in immaterial terms) 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, yet, such environment not only as a material reality
      and that such protection, preservation and improvement cannot
      be imposed and cannot be effectively applied without an active
      participation of each person.


      


      13. And, finally, considering and reaffirming that all effective
      action at an ecological level (material and immaterial) 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, debate,
      intercommunication and free information about environmental and
      cultural questions, such as science, art, social science, law,
      logics, history, literature, poetry, technology and so on, in
      a transnational, transcultural and transdiciplinary basis.


      
 


      
Principles


      
Art 1


      
It will never exist in
      the European Environmental Tribunal any determination or posture
      limiting the participation of people accordingly to their race,
      gender, nationality, religion or activity.


      
 


      
Art 2


      


      The European Environmental Tribunal will have, among its fundamental
      characteristics, that of to be an planetary 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 facts related to
      the environment while anthropological condition.


      
 


      
Art 4


      


      The environment, as an anthropological condition, 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. But such bureaucratic design can vary.


      
 


      
Art 7


      


      The European Environmental Tribunal will try, by all means in
      its possibility, to support and promote the publishing of books,
      papers, websites, exhibitions, 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 field, ideology, political party, religion,
      sect or religious system, or groups of people that, by any mean,
      establish, directly or indirectly, any type of sectarianism.


      
 


      
Art 9


      


      The staff of the European Environmental Tribunal must not be
      part of any political party.


      
 


      
Art 10


      
The names of the first
      Presidents will remain as name of chairs, even after their disappearance.