ECJ SAYS ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY CAN FLOW FROM PROXIMITY TO POLLUTION
March 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that polluting companies in the European Union (EU), such as some dye and textile chemical manufacturers, could be liable for pollution clean-ups, just by being located close to an environmental problem. Moreover national regulators can insist companies clean-up land as a condition of starting operations on particular sites, decided judges. The court was interpreting the EU's environmental liability directive. It ruled it permits national EU legislation allowing regulators "to operate on the ...
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