Environmental Information Regulations (ERI)

The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 [EIR] provide public access to environmental information held by the Council.

The purpose of EIR is:

• to encourage greater awareness of issues that affect the environment
• to improve the openness and transparency of public bodies
• to increase the accountability of public body decision making and spending
• to allow the public to engage in decision making
• to increase trust and confidence in public authorities

The Council recognises the importance of public awareness of the decisions it makes and sees the Environmental Information Regulations as a means of contributing towards this awareness.

Tendring Council is subject to the Environmental Information Regulations. This means that the Council is required to regularly publish information about the work that it does and the money that it spends. It also means that members of the public can ask the Council for recorded environmental information that it holds, and the Council has a duty to provide them with that information unless an exception applies.