Environmental criminal liability and enforcement in European and international law / / Ricardo M. Pereira.

• Superior document: Queen Mary Studies in International Law, Volume 21
• VerfasserIn: Pereira, Ricardo M. (Law teacher),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Queen Mary studies in international law ; Volume 21.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (389 p.)
• Notes: Update and extended version of author's thesis (doctoral - University of Essex Law School, 2009) issued under title: The harmonisation of environmental criminal law in the European Union.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; The Role of the Criminal Law for the Protection of the Environment /; The Internationalisation of Environmental Criminal Law: Rationales, Basis and Prospects /; The Degrees of Harmonisation of Environmental Criminal Law /; The Competence to Harmonise Environmental Criminal Law in the European Union /; The Harmonisation of Substantive Environmental Criminal Law and Penalties /; Could the Harmonisation of Environmental Criminal Law Improve the Enforcement of Environmental Law? /; Concluding Remarks /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004195882
• ISSN: 1877-4822
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ricardo M. Pereira.

The drive for harmonisation of environmental criminal standards at both the international and European level emerges from the increasing recognition of the scale and seriousness of environmental crime, the need to strengthen mechanisms of police and judicial interstate cooperation to combat cross-border crime, and the objective to ensure fair competition in a global economy and an integrated EU common market. The harmonisation of environmental criminal law requires a competent institutional framework able to convey the need for criminalisation of environmental harm while not overriding national aspirations to sovereignty in criminal matters. The book Environmental Criminal Liability and Enforcement in European and International Law assesses legal, theoretical and practical questions of harmonisation of national environmental criminal law and the mechanisms for cooperation by sovereign states under European and International Law, with a particular emphasis on legislative developments in the European Union, the Council of Europe and other international institutions, assessing the case for an extension of the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over international environmental crimes.