Principio de Publicidad en Trámites Ambientales relacionados con el recurso hídrico en Colombia, una Mirada desde el Acuerdo de Escazú

Abstract

This research article aims to address the principle of publicity enshrined in Colombian environmental legislation, especially those rules of law developed in Decree Law 2811 of 1974, Law 99 of 1993 and Decree 1076 of 2015, which regulate the environmental administrative procedures of permissive nature related to the use and exploitation of water resources, with a view to establishing whether said regulatory development conforms to the approaches of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean, known as the Agreement of Escazú, aimed at guaranteeing the rights of access to information and citizen participation, in the environmental decision-making processes by the authorities.