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EU Environmental Policy and Law: Reflections at Fifty

Edited by: Gerd Winter, Richard Macrory, Ludwig Krämer

ISBN13: 9789462513976
Published: May 2026
Publisher: Europa Law Publishing
Country of Publication: Netherlands
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The last 50 years have seen the creation of a remarkable body of EU environmental legislation, policy, and case-law.

But in an era of international turbulence, the rule of law is repeatedly being challenged. Economic pressures have led to intensified questioning of environmental protection measures. Environmental degradation continues. This major new book is therefore a timely exploration of critical issues concerning the current EU environmental acquis.

Written by 28 of today’s leading European environmental law scholars, all members of the Avosetta Group, it provides rich insights on problems and solutions, based on extensive personal experience and knowledge. The book will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of environmental law and policy.

In 27 chapters sectoral, horizontal and constitutional problems of EU environmental law are discussed. The topics addressed include:

  • Biodiversity conservation and nature restoration
  • Air quality
  • Water pollution and water scarcity
  • Climate change
  • Chemicals
  • Plant protection
  • Circular economy
  • Strategic Environmental Assessment
  • Direct regulation
  • Economic instruments
  • Implementation and enforcement
  • Environmental liability
  • Criminal law
  • Public access to information and participation
  • Principles of effective judicial protection
  • Rights of indigenous people exemplified with the Saami
  • Legislative design
  • Codification
  • Fundamental rights
  • Future generations and the law
  • The role of the Court of Justice of the EU
  • Critiques of ecological law and policy
  • External effects of EU environmental law and eco-legal transitology

Subjects:
Environmental Law
Contents:
Introduction and overview

Part A. Sectoral Policies
1. Protection of environmental media
Biodiversity conservation
Agustín García-Ureta, Marco Onida

Nature restoration as a binding legal duty in the EU: Quo Vadis after the last-minute adoption of the 2024 EU Nature Restoration Law?
Hendrik Schoukens

EU Air Quality Law: Past Paradoxes and Future Prospects
Eloise Scotford

Towards Zero Pollution for Water: Disenchanted Reflections on the 2025 EU Water Resilience Strategy
Nathalie Hervé-Fournereau

Addressing Water Scarcity in the Context of EU Environmental Law and in a Comprehensive Perspective
Vasiliki Karageorgou

Climate Change
Angel M. Moreno

2. Products
The EU chemicals legislation (REACH): a critical assessment
Angel M. Moreno

Plant protection products regulation at the crossroad
Nicolas de Sadeleer

Beyond the Bin: The EU’s Journey Toward a Circular Economy
Jiří Vodička

Part B. Horizontal measures
1. Instruments
What does the future hold for the Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive?
Ole Kristian Fauchald

In defence of direct regulation: on rigidity and overflexibilisation
Gerd Winter

Economic Instruments – Innovation, Evolution and Limitations
Markus Kern

2. Implementation
Implementation and enforcement of EU environmental law
Ludwig Krämer, Richard Macrory

Environmental Supervisory Bodies at National Level – Why We Need Them
Richard Macrory

Environmental Liability in the European Union
Emanuela Orlando

3. Liability
EU Environmental Criminal Law and its Effectiveness on the National Level
Rajko Knez

4. Democracy
Public Access to Environmental Information in the EU : Navigating the Complexity of the Regulatory Regime
Lana Ofak

Public Participation in environmental matters in the EU : the Aarhus Convention and its implementation in EU law
Jerzy Jendrośka

5. Legal protection
The principle of effective judicial protection in the EU
Jan Darpö

Land rights of the Sámi people and access to justice
Jan Darpö, Ole Kristian Fauchald, Leena Hansen, Timo Koivurova

6. Legislation
The evolution of the legislative approach in EU environmental law
Massimiliano Montini

Codification of environmental law on State and EU levels – A Long Way to Go
Simon Jolivet

Part C. Fundamental reflections
Fundamental Rights to Climate Protection in Europe : A Learning Field for the CJEU?
Gerd Winter

Future generations
Gyula Bándi

Environmental law in the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of European Union – trends of a pro-ecological stance with elements of judicial restraint
Barbara Iwańska, Mariusz Baran

Environmental Policy and Law – Critique, Deficits and Limits
Bernhard Wegener

EU environmental measures with external effects: the rise of transitology and earth system law in the EU
Alexandra Aragao

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