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Complexity and Conflict of Norms: How to Handle Compliance with EU Environmental Law

This e-presentation addresses the complexity and conflict of norms in ensuring compliance with EU environmental law. It outlines the extensive body of EU environmental law, comprising over 500 directives, regulations and decisions, and how the different approaches of different pieces of legislation create numerous opportunities for conflicting standards. The presentation also discusses compliance at Member State level, noting the prevalence of infringement cases and their causes. It concludes by highlighting the need for regulatory harmonisation to resolve these conflicts and improve compliance.

e-Presentation | March 2024 | Learning time: 31 minutes

e-Presentation by Iris Kieft, Associate Partner at NautaDutilh International Law Firm, Rotterdam.

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Proving Environmental Law: Courts and Environmental Cases

This e-presentation explores the complexities of proving environmental law in court cases. It highlights different legal aspects regarding the challenges of understanding and applying scientifically complex environmental concepts such as toxicity and pollution, which often depend on the interaction between substances and ecosystems, as well as stresses the diverse nature of evidence in environmental law, the critical role of access to information, and the importance of using open and official sources of environmental data to support environmental litigation.

e-Presentation | March 2024 | Learning time: 48 minutes

e-Presentation by Marc Clément, Presiding Judge of the Administrative Court of Lyon and Vice-Chair of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee.

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Insights on Guidance and Coordination of the Work of the Member States’ Environmental Authorities in Countering Environmental Crime

The e-presentation gives an introduction to the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL) and provides insights about its enforcement work by showcasing the different tools which are at its disposal through the Member States’ environmental authorities. The harmonisation of the European dataset on illegal waste shipments is addressed and further explained with recent cases.

e-Presentation | November 2023 | Learning time: 33 minutes

e-Presentation by Katie Olley, International Waste Shipments Specialist, Producer Compliance and Waste Shipment Unit, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, North Lanarkshire; European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL) Representative, Brussels.

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Supporting Financial Institutions in Addressing and Reporting Suspicious Transactions Relating to the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Financial Flows Toolkits

The e-presentation details the research THEMIS has conducted on the illegal wildlife trade, deforestation and land conversion linked to financial crime and how the financial service industry facilitates criminal activities. The toolkits provided by THEMIS to support financial institutions in addressing and reporting suspicious transaction are introduced, which identify businesses, activities and transactions associated with these crimes and provide advice on how to avoid becoming complicit.

e-Presentation | November 2023 | Learning time: 46 minutes

e-Presentation by Carel van Randwyck, Head of Impact & Partnerships, THEMIS, London.

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Tackling Environmental Crime through Legal Interventions: a Closer Look at the Fisheries Sector

The e-presentation details criminal offences committed in connection with illegal fishing and how the European Union and NGOs are tackling it. Insights into examples of fisheries crime and the EU legal framework are presented and multiple enforcement challenges and their consequences are addressed.

e-Presentation | November 2023 | Learning time: 46 minutes

e-Presentation by Nils Courcy, Judge, Dean, Criminal Court, Segovia; Associate Professor, University of Alcalá.

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Insights into Dealing with Environmental Crime Cases in Court

The e-presentation gives insights into how environmental crime cases are dealt with and uses case studies to illustrate these. The concept of environmental rule of law is introduced and consequences which arise in cases of failure are presented. Cooperation between environmental enforcement networks is showcased and issues related to jurisdiction are addressed.

e-Presentation | November 2023 | Learning time: 49 minutes

e-Presentation by Faustino Gudin Rodríguez-Magariños, Judge, Dean, Criminal Court, Segovia; Associate Professor, University of Alcalá.

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European Green Deal: Assessment by the EEB

The presentation provides a comprehensive assessment of the Green Deal by explaining its background, current state, and challenges ahead. The separation in green, yellow and red lights gives a clear view of progress and of what may be expected as next steps.

e-Presentation | March 2023 | Learning time: 57 minutes

e-Presentation by Faustine Bas-Defossez, Director for Nature, Health and Environment, European Environmental Bureau, Brussels

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Now What? The Aftermath of the Urgenda Case

The presentation provides an overview of the Urgenda case and its impact, especially on climate litigation cases that followed. It explains the background of the case and its link to human rights, presents other recent climate cases before national courts in the EU, highlights the exceptionality of climate litigation in comparison to environmental cases, and shows future trends

e-Presentation | March 2023 | Learning time: 1hour 10 minutes

e-Presentation by Christina Eckes, Professor of European Law, University of Amsterdam.

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Hydrogen: Opportunities and Pitfalls for a Sustainable Energy Transition

The presentation provides an overview of hydrogen as a fuel source by explaining the types and roles of hydrogen in the future energy mix, assessing the EU’s Hydrogen Strategy and presenting the potential of technologies using hydrogen in the Energy Community.

e-Presentation | March 2023 | Learning time: 49 minutes

e-Presentation by Peter Vajda, Senior Environmental Expert, Energy Community, Vienna.

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