ECJ ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
April 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission is taking the unusual step of taking the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers to court to try and force it to toughen moves to criminalise environmental offences across the EU.Ministers in January adopted an EU Decision - without referring to other European institutions - that calls on Member States to criminalise wilful and negligent pollution, but leaves flexibility on what kind of offence is made a crime and on how it should be punished.However, the Commission was at the time pushing for a fully fledged directive to ...
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