EU – ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
June 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA judgement by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) due in the next month or so is expected to find that the European Commission should be given a key role in measures to deal with environmental crime. The ECJ is likely to follow the line taken last month by the court's advocate general Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer who stated that common definitions of environmental crimes and the rules for determining penalties were "first pillar" issues - in other words they should be dealt with on an EU basis. Until now the EU member governments have acted as if ...
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