Comparative Environmental Law in Europe, an Introduction to Public Environmental Law in the ED Member States
| Published date | 01 December 1996 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1023263X9600300408 |
| Date | 01 December 1996 |
| Subject Matter | Ius Commune Europaeum Book Series |
Ius Commune Europaeum book series
Comparative Environmental Law in Europe,
An Introduction to Public Environmental Law in the ED Member States
R. Seerden &M. Heldeweg (eds.)
466
p.,
ISBN 90 6215536 7, Prize: BF 2450/NLG 149,45
This book intends to contribute to the insight into public environmental law within the
EU Member States, environmental law to be understood as the law concerning the
protection of the physical environment (water/soil/air etc.) againstpollution. The adjec-
tive 'public' limits the scope of this book to those parts of environmental law that
concern the relations between government and private individuals. This book focuses
on constitutional and administrative law. This focus does, however, not imply the
exclusion of international and European (environmental) law nor of private and penal
(environmental) law. These areas of law will be dealt with but they will be discussed
only as fas as they are relevant to the understanding of public environmental law .
The main purpose of this book is to give an introduction, by native writers, to the most
important aspects of public environmental law in the EU Member States. Although
being an introduction, this book can be of great importance for education, research and
practice as well.
It
can
playa
major role in the development of (comparative) public
environmental law in the various ED Member States and in that respect in the research
of the Ius Commune of European countries.
The public environmental law of the ED Member States is presented in separate chap-
ters for each Member State. The six main items of each contribution are:
1. an introduction to the constitutional system (legal powers within the state, judiciary
powers, etc.) insofar as this is functional to the description of public environ-
mental law; an outline of legal and administrative competences on the various
authority levels in general and within the field of environmental law in particular;
2. an elaboration of the legal bases for government involvement in the protection of
the environment (principles or fait accompli);
3. a description of legal instruments of environmental policy (legal acts, permits,
planning, financial instruments, etc.);
4. an outline of administrative procedures and judicial review, especially for environ-
mental permits;
5. a description of the enforcement of the law (under administrative law in relation
to private and penal law) against environmental offences;
6. recent developments in public environmental law.
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