Public authorities must actively make information available in a publication scheme.
- Public authorities must make their environmental information available increasingly through electronic means, such as via the internet.
- Public authorities must also organise their environmental information so that it can be systematically made public.
- There are minimum criteria as to what public authorities are expected to actively make generally available. These are stated in Article 7(2) of the European Directive (2003/4/EC).
- Public authorities that are also subject to the Freedom of Information Act can use their publication scheme as a way of complying in part with their responsibilities to actively make available their environmental information to the public.
- Public authorities must publish a scale of charges.
Read our guidance on routinely publishing environmental information.
For further advice, refer to our page on What information do we need to publish?