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environment and development should be aimed at satisfying the
interests and needs of all states.
5. Because of their different role in deteriorating the state of the
global environment, states have a common but different responsibility.

6. States must restrict and eliminate non-viable production and
consumption patterns and encourage the demographic situation.
7. States should cooperate in the exchange of scientific and

technical knowledge, adaptation, dissemination and transfer of
technologies, including new and innovative technologies.
8. Environmental issues are addressed in the most effective
manner with the participation of all interested citizens at the

appropriate level. States develop and encourage awareness and public
participation through the provision of comprehensive information on
the environment. There is an effective opportunity to use judicial and

administrative procedures, including reparations and remedies.
9. States adopt effective environmental legislation.
Environmental standards, regulatory goals and priorities should reflect

the environmental conditions in which they are applied.
10. Countries should work together to create a supportive and
open international economic system. Measures taken in the field of

trade policy in order to protect the environment should not be a means
of unjustified discrimination or a covert restriction of international
trade.
11. It is necessary to develop national laws on liability and

compensation for the negative effects of environmental damage
caused by activities under their jurisdiction to areas that are beyond
their jurisdiction.

12. States should cooperate effectively with the aim of deterring
or distracting, transferring or transferring other States to any kind of
activity and substances that cause significant environmental damage
or are considered to be harmful to human health.

13. In order to protect the environment of the state in accordance
with its capabilities, the principle of the use of preventive measures is
widely used.

14. The State immediately informs other States of natural
disasters or other emergencies that may have harmful effects on the
environment in those States. The international community is doing its

utmost to assist the victims of these states.

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