EU MINISTERS AND MEPS STRIKE DEAL OVER ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME LAW
June 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE DELIBERATE and negligent potentially harmful release of radioactive material is among a list of environmental misdemeanours to become crimes in all 27 member states of the European Union (EU), following agreement over a new EU law. This directive on environmental crime - agreed by the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers - tells all EU countries to ensure a wide range of misdeeds damaging the environment are listed as crimes, not civil offences. From two years after the directive is formally approved (expected maybe in two ...
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