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1 Online-Ressource (474 Seiten)
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9782802769859
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Collection Droit de l'Union Européenne - Manuels Ser
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Intro -- Title -- Previously published in the same serie: -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Contents -- Table of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. - A tortuous history -- 2. - A laborious implementation -- a. The Novartis transgenic maize -- b. The nitrates' content of Suez Lyonnaise's water -- c. The "greening" of Helsinki's public transportation -- d. The Eco-Emballages waste management system's logo and technical requirements -- e. Spilling from Texaco gas stations, the Erika tanker and the used water collectors -- f. The diversion of the course of the upper waters of the river Acheloos to the river Pineios -- 3. - Looking for efficiency -- 4. - Climate change: major upheaval and energy transition -- A. The multilateral climate negotiation and its impacts on European law -- 1) A disappointing exemplarity policy -- 2) A flourishing substantive law -- B. Climate law's wide normative deployment -- 1) Public intervention "on the supply side" -- 2) Public intervention "on the demand side" -- 3) Public intervention "at the citizen's level" -- C. Institutional ambiguity and temptation of an "Energy Union Governance" -- 1) A constrained institutional framework -- 2) A new "governance" -- 5. - The European Green Deal -- A. Climate, the main target: toward "carbon neutrality by 2050" -- 1) The "first European 'Climate Law'" -- 2) Revision of environment and energy legislation implementing the Paris Agreement -- 3) Construction and mobilities -- B. Difficult balancing of interests: environment and economics -- 1) The Green Deal and the environment -- 2) The Green Deal: looking for economic meaning and social acceptability -- 6. - General outline -- BOOK ONE Institutional framework of environment and climate law -- Chapter I Scope of environmental and climate law -- SECTION 1. - CONDITIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL INTERVENTION.
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1. - Competences governed by the principle of conferral -- A. The competence to adopt measures of a specifically environmental nature -- 1) Quality of the environment -- 2) Human health -- 3) Natural resources -- 4) International dimension -- B. The competence to adopt environmental measures having as their object the establishment and functioning of the internal market -- 2. - Competences constrained by the principle of subsidiarity -- SECTION 2. - THE CONCURRENT NATURE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMPETENCE -- 1. - National provisions instituting a more stringent protection than strictly environmental measures -- A. Nature and direction of most stringent protective measures -- B. Commission review -- 2. - The safeguard clause relating to internal market measures in the environmental area -- A. Maintaining existing provisions and introducing new provisions -- B. Specific conditions for the introduction of new national provisions -- C. Commission review -- Chapter II Implementation of environment and climate law -- SECTION 1. - INSTITUTIONAL IMPLEMENTATION -- 1. - Apportioning Roles and Duties -- A. The roles within the European legal order -- 1) Normative powers -- a. First degree normative power -- b. Rule-making implementation -- 2) Administrative responsibilities -- a. Administrative implementation -- b. Monitoring -- B. The role of local governments -- 1) The primary importance of local governments -- 2) The limited powers of local authorities -- 2. - The Legislative Procedure -- A. The two legislative processes -- 1) The ordinary legislative process -- 2) The special legislative procedure -- B. Choice of the legislative process -- 1) A preference for the internal market? -- 2) Sectorial policies -- 3) The extension of the Union's competence in the criminal area -- 3. - Voluntary Agreements
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4. - The nonbinding climate "commitments" governance and transparency -- A. Transparency instruments -- 1) Individualisation of objectives -- a. The Paris Agreement's Nationally Determined Contributions -- b. Integrated national energy and climate plans in the EU -- 2) Progress reports -- a. The Paris Agreement's biennial transparency reports -- b. The Member States' integrated national energy and climate progress reports -- B. Monitoring -- 1) Validation of the individualised objectives -- a. The Paris Agreement's abstentionism -- b. Assessment of the national integrated plans and of the long-term strategies -- 2) Progress assessment -- a. The Paris Agreement: the quest for palliative measures -- b. Progress assessment in the EU -- 3) "Sanctions": recommendations and facilitation -- a. The Paris Agreement's facilitation mechanism -- b. The European Commission's recommendations -- SECTION 2. - ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION -- 1. - European courts -- A. The European Court of Human Rights -- B. The EU Courts -- 1) Member States' infringements -- a. Monetary sanctions -- b. Interim relief -- 2) The strict limitation of direct challenges -- 2. - National Courts -- A. Domestic administrative litigation -- 1) Access to justice -- 2) The national courts' duty to ensure effectiveness of EU law -- B. Cross-border private dispute resolution -- 1) Jurisdiction -- a. General rule -- b. Special rules -- 2) Applicable law -- a. Law applicable in contractual matters -- b. Limits to application of the law designated by the rule of conflict -- c. Law applicable to non-contractual obligations -- 3) Recognition and enforcement of judicial decisions -- 3. - Arbitral tribunals -- A. Investor-State dispute resolution -- 1) The criticism against ISDS -- 2) ISDS revisited -- B. Commercial arbitration
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1) Commercial arbitration practice and the environment -- 2) The development of arbitration of climate change-related disputes -- Chapter III Principles in environment and climate law -- SECTION 1. - THE PLACE OF PRINCIPLES WITH RESPECT TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY -- 1. - Place of the environmental policy's principles -- A. Inventory (and exclusion of sustainable development and integration) -- 1) Principles specific to the environmental policy -- 2) The principles which are not -- a. The sustainable development objective -- b. The integration principle -- c. The principle of information and participation of the public -- d. Animal welfare -- B. Legal strength -- 2. - Impact of general principles of EU law -- A. The principle of equality of treatment -- B. Other general principles -- SECTION 2. - THE CONTENTS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY'S PRINCIPLES -- 1. - Protection principles -- A. Intensity of the protection -- 1) The requirement of a high level of protection -- 2) Proportionality -- 3) Conciliation within the sustainable development objective -- B. Purpose of the protection -- 1) The "prevention" or "no-harm" principle -- 2) Precautionary principle -- 3) Principle of correction at source -- 2. - The polluter-pays principle -- A. The various approaches -- B. Implementation -- C. Applications -- SECTION 3. - FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS -- 1. - The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union -- A. Moderating the environmental policy -- 1) Lack of relevance -- a. Claims summarily disposed of -- b. Claims outside the scope of EU competence -- 2) Substantive rights unable to restrain the environment policy -- a. The right to property -- b. The principle of equality -- B. A moderate contribution to environmental protection -- 1) Integration of a high level of protection and improvement of the environment
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2) Procedural rights as a palliative to substantive law's limited ambition -- a. Effectiveness of procedural rights in environmental matters -- b. Effectiveness of the sanction of a substantive environmental right -- 2. - The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- A. The difficult relationship of the Council of Europe with the environment -- B. The several rights applicable in relation to the environment and climate -- C. The right to respect for private and family life -- BOOK TWO Environment and climate legislation -- PART ONE Rules applicable to the natural environment areas -- Chapter IV Air and atmosphere -- SECTION 1. - THE GENERAL LEGISLATION ON AMBIENT AIR QUALITY -- 1. - Ambient air quality parameters and assessment -- 2. - Measures aiming at ensuring the ambient air quality -- SECTION 2. - MEASURES CONCERNING EMISSIONS OF POLLUTANTS -- 1. - Traditional air pollution of identified sources -- A. Motor vehicles and other mobile equipment -- 1) The emissions of motor vehicles and trucks -- 2) Fuels -- B. Measures relating to emissions of certain plants -- 1) Combustion plants -- 2) Activities and plants emitting VOCs -- 2. - Measures relating to long-range emissions -- A. Substances that deplete the ozone layer -- B. Acidifying pollutants and other atmospheric pollutants -- 1) The sulfur content of certain liquid fuels -- 2) Emissions of certain eutrophic and atmospheric pollutants -- SECTION 3. - CLIMATE CHANGE-RELATED MEASURES -- 1. - Emission reductions -- A. Reduction of emissions not subject to a specific regime -- 1) The apportionment of the additional effort during the period 2013-2020 -- 2) Binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions from 2021 to 2030 -- B. Reduction of emissions from certain goods, point or mobile sources -- 1) Point source emissions
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a. The improvement of energy efficiency - referral -
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Thieffry, Patrick Handbook of European Environmental and Climate Law Namur : Bruylant, Editions juridiques,c2021
Language:
English
