EU MINISTERS AND MEPS STRIKE DEAL OVER ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME LAW
May 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government and the other 26 member states of the European Union (EU) are to review their laws to ensure a wide range of misdeeds damaging the environment are listed as crimes, rather than civil misdemeanours. This follows a deal between the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament over a directive on environmental crime, which insists a number of wrongful actions be criminalised across the European Union. From two years after the directive is formally approved (expected maybe in two months), they would be punished by ...
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