Today the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market voted for a serious weakening of the proposed Directive on Environmental Liability. If adopted into legislation, the ...

The Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) requires EU member states to implement a new liability regime for the prevention and remediation of environmental damage into their national laws. As ...

Germany must transpose the EU Environmental Crime Directive into national law by 21 May, 2026. The Environmental Crime Directive primarily aims to expand and intensify corporate liability. Companies ...

Businesses that have operations with the EU are now being required to take a more proactive approach to environmental risk management in order to comply with the requirements of the EU’s Environmental ...

The first thing to stress is that time is of the essence. On 1 March, the directive came into force in England and Wales, in the form of the Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) ...

The consultations invite stakeholders’ views on the Environmental Liability Directive and the Waste Framework Directive. In May 2022, the European Commission (Commission) issued public consultations ...

On the eve of a possible ‘political agreement’ on the Environmental Liability Directive at the Environment Council in Luxembourg, five leading green groups are calling for a robust new law which ...