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    Criminal enforcement of environmental law in the European Union / edited by Michael Faure and Günter Heine.

    • Title:Criminal enforcement of environmental law in the European Union / edited by Michael Faure and Günter Heine.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Faure, Michael (Michael G.)
      Heine, Günter, 1952-
    • Published/Created:The Hague : Kluwer Law International ; Frederick, MD : Sold and distributed in North, Central, and South America by Aspen, ©2005.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Environmental law--European Union countries--Criminal provisions.
      Offenses against the environment--European Union countries.
    • Description:xii, 187 p. ; 25 cm.
    • Series:Comparative environmental law & policy series ; v. 8
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [95]-97).
    • ISBN:9041123377 (acid-free paper)
    • Contents:Summary of country reports
      1. Criminal liability of corporations for environmental offences
      2. role of enforcing bodies and individuals in connection with environmental offences
      3. Criminal penalties
      4. Administrative sanctions
      5. Existence of instruments which prohibit individuals from carrying out a similar activity
      6. Transfrontier pollution incidents
      7. Criminal liability for environmental offences by public servants and public authorities
      8. Miscellaneous
      Evaluation of the answers
      1. Criminal liability of corporations for environmental offences
      2. role of enforcing bodies and of individuals in connection with environmental offences
      3. Criminal penalties
      4. Administrative sanctions
      5. Existence of instruments which prohibit individuals from carrying out a similar activity
      6. Transfrontier pollution incidents
      7. Criminal liability for environmental offences by public servants and public authorities
      8. Miscellaneous
      Concluding remarks
      1. Trend : towards corporate criminal liability
      2. Administrative or criminal law?
      3. Towards a European environmental criminal law?
      Annex 1. Questionnaire
      Annex 2. Country reports
      Annex 3. Convention on the protection of the environment through criminal law
      Annex 4. Resolutions of the XVth international Congress of penal law (Rio de Janeiro, September 4th-10th 1994).
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