Human-Rights Approach to Water in the European Union on the 10th Anniversary of the ‘Right2Water’ Initiative

• Authors: Olga Hałub-Kowalczyk

Abstracts

EN

The 20 principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights adopted by the EU in 2017 include the right to access such basic services as water, sanitation, energy or transport. In the face of the climate crisis, the first of these rights is becoming a service which, due to the progression of global warming, could lose its universal and easily accessible nature. It seems reasonable to ask about the chances of developing a ‘right to water’ within the framework of the EU’s system, which would unambiguously oblige the public authorities to ensure access to this right. The trigger for this research was the ‘Right2Water’ European citizens’ initiative addressed to the European Commission in 2013, which contained postulates to recognise access to water as a human right. Ten years after the launch of this procedure, it is reasonable to acknowledge the verification of the actions taken by the EU and whether the evolving EU water policy can be assessed as being oriented towards ensuring the right to water for all EU-inhabitants. The aim of this paper justifies the use of legal-dogmatic research methodology. Regarding the analysis of legal acts, the rules of legal hermeneutics were applied, esp. grammar and teleological interpretation.

Keywords

EN

access to water; right to water; Right2Water; Drinking Water Directive; Concession Directive

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Polish Political Science Yearbook
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 2(52)
• Pages: 71-81

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Olga Hałub-Kowalczyk

• University of Wrocław

• https://orcid.org/0000000327472625

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ppsy202339

Biblioteka Nauki

15846637