Illegal waste dumping - an environmental crime?
Environmental crime often involves trade across borders
Waste
Pollution
Industrial waste
Toxic Chemicals
A water pollution crime?
Illegal Logging
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Policy Brief 16: Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the EU's approach for tackling environemntal crime

This brief describes the weaknesses of the EU's approach in tackling environmental crime identified in a SWOT analysis. It provides a baseline from which policy recommendations on how to improve environmental crime enforcement are developed at EU, Member State and international levels. issues discussed include

  • data and information management
  • further harmonisation of substantive environmental criminal law at EU level
  • System of sanctions (administrative vs. criminal vs. civil proceedings
  • Functioning of enforcement institutions and cooperation between them
  • The role of environmental crime victims and civil society
  • External dimension of environmental crime – what can EU do
  • Use of environmental liability
  • Organised environmental crime
  • Corporate responsibility and liability in relation to environmental crime