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EU Agrees to Outlaw "Green Crimes"
The EU has approved legislation that will force national governments to
apply criminal sanctions for deliberate or negligent damage to the
environment. The list of crimes includes, inter alia, unlawful discharges
or emissions into the air, soil or water so as to cause "substantial
damage" to humans and/or to the environment; waste shipments; killing,
destruction, possession, trading of protected fauna or flora specimens,
except when little or no impact on conservation status; any conduct
causing significant deterioration of habitats within protected sites; and,
production, importation, exportation, placing on the market or use of
ozone-depleting substances. Inciting, aiding, abetting are equally
criminal. Penalties are left to member states' with the proviso that they
be "effective, proportionate and dissuasive". The law is limited to areas
where the EU has competence, leaving national legislation intact in other
areas.
Posted on May 30, 2008 11:27 AM
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