This acclaimed text provides a complete picture of environmental law at EU level. Written by an author with 30 years’ experience of working within the European Commission it provides unrivalled analysis of EU environmental law and its relationship to both other sectoral policies and the laws of Member States.
- Explains the development and sources of EU environmental law
- Examines the organisations involved in the law-making process and the decision making procedures
- Covers the law in specific areas, such as climate change and ozone depletion, biodiversity and nature conservation, products, water protection, air pollution, and waste
- Discusses horizontal measures, such as access to environmental information, funding, planning and land use, industrial installations, participation in decisionmaking, access to justice at both national and EU levels, environmental liability, and taxes and charges
- Shows how environmental requirements are integrated into other policies, such as agriculture, fishery, transport, energy, trade and tourism
- Considers the relationship between the powers of the European Union and those of the Member States
- Looks at the obligations of Member States to implement EU law, including its transposition and application, monitoring, and sanctions for non-application.
- Provides new and updated coverage, including on the 7th Environmental Action Programme, foreign environmental policy, Trans-European networks, human rights and the environment, enforcement, and coverage of around 150 new judgments of the ECJ
