Regional Act No. 6 setting up the Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment (ARPA)

The Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region aims at developing and enhancing measures to protect the quality of natural ecosystems and prevent the degradation of the environment. To these ends, the present Regional Act provides for the rearrangement of the institutions which are in charge of environmental protection and regulates their functioning. Article 2 sets up the Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment (ARPA), which shall operate in cooperation with, on the one hand, the regional sanitary services and, on the other hand, the European Environment Agency created by Regulation 1210/90/EEC. Article 3 lists out the tasks and duties of the ARPA. The ARPA shall ensure access to information and documents relevant to the environmental field.