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<\/figure>There are no good reasons why in the modern age the Europe Asia Pipeline Company (EAPC), set up to handle trade with Iran in the 1960s, should continue to conduct its business without transparency and oversight. No other government agency operates under a such a wide confidentiality order. And certainly, the order should not serve to hide basic operational aspects such as company management, planning and construction, licensing and, equally importantly, environmental protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EAPC operations were responsible for infrastructure and maintenance failures, among them the worst contamination event in 2014 that destroyed acres of a pristine nature reserve at Evrona, in southern Israel. Adam Teva V\u2019Din and other civil society organizations are calling for changes in the company\u2019s status to allow for public access to facts and figures regarding environmental management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adam Teva V\u2019Din\u2019s head of regulation, attorney Meirav Abady, has submitted a detailed and comprehensive position paper to the Knesset committee preparing to extend for an additional period EAPC\u2019s special status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/figure>She comments, \u201c\u2026the secrecy order is an anachronistic remnant of factual circumstances and legal reality that have fundamentally changed\u2026\u201d While Adam Teva V\u2019Din, as an advocacy organization, respects all efforts to protect the security of the state, the public has a right to receive information about the company\u2019s operations, particularly as they relate to the broad negative consequences of EAPC\u2019s activities on the public\u2019s right to a healthy environment and quality of life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Abady cites the 2014 Evrona catastrophe, as well as the Nahal Zin incidents in 2011, and reminds the committee of the pressing reasons why EPAC\u2019s activities should be transparent, in the interest of the public and of the environment, especially as Israel begins to experience the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She presented to the Committee a detailed position paper in the name of Adam Teva V\u2019Din, proposing changes in the status of EAPC, and further requested that the duration of any future operating order be for a short period, preferably one year, so as to facilitate future examination of EAPC operations\u2019 scope and validity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n