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 17: Pros and cons of harmonising criminal sanctions on environmental crime

In this policy brief, we explore the pros and cons of harmonising criminal sanctions on environmental crime. Although the EFFACE project does not hold a uniform view on the desirability of harmonisation, we nonetheless find it important to take the debate forward. From whether harmonisation would add to the effective deterrence of environmental crime and the enforcement of environmental law to whether harmonisation is a necessary precondition to employ certain investigative techniques, the policy brief attempts to highlight some of the debates that have been brought forth in various EFFACE publications in the past.