This article engages in the exercise of measuring the ‘degree of judiciality’ of the Non-Compliance Mechanism under the Aarhus Convention by looking at the legal effect of its findings and recommendations and considering, amongst other things, the effect of Article 31(3)(a) and (b) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. The article also looks at the procedure of the hearings before the Compliance Committee and at the application of the domestic remedies rule especially in comparison with the human rights systems (ECtHR and IACtHR). It concludes that, at least with regard to these three features, the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee has become an enforcement mechanism capable of generating decisions with legal effect, rather than a ‘soft remedy’.

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奥胡斯公约下的不遵守机制作为国际环境法的“软”执行：毕竟不是那么软！

本文通过研究其调查结果和建议的法律效力，并考虑第 31 条第 (3) 款的效力等，来衡量《奥胡斯公约》下不遵守情事机制的“司法程度” (a) 和 (b) 的维也纳条约法公约。本文还考察了遵约委员会的听证程序以及国内补救规则的适用，特别是与人权系统（ECtHR 和 IACtHR）进行比较。它的结论是，至少在这三个特征方面，奥胡斯公约履约委员会已经成为一种能够产生具有法律效力的决定的执行机制，而不是一种“软补救措施”。