{"id":150242,"date":"2024-04-05T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T01:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=150242"},"modified":"2024-04-04T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:37:18","slug":"council-gives-green-light-to-new-legislation-toughening-penalties-and-extending-the-list-of-environmental-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/council-gives-green-light-to-new-legislation-toughening-penalties-and-extending-the-list-of-environmental-offences\/","title":{"rendered":"Council gives green light to new legislation toughening penalties and extending the list of environmental offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Council formally adopted a directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law. The law will improve the investigation and prosecution of environmental crime offences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2402-homepage-2_environmental-crime.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150237 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2402-homepage-2_environmental-crime.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"825\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2402-homepage-2_environmental-crime.png 825w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2402-homepage-2_environmental-crime-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2402-homepage-2_environmental-crime-768x433.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The directive establishes EU-wide minimum rules on the definition of criminal offences and penalties. It replaces the previous law which dates back to 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The law will only apply to offences committed within the EU. However, member states are able to choose to extend their jurisdiction to offences that have been committed outside their territory.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Expanded list of offences<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of conducts that will constitute a criminal offence will increase from nine to 20. New offences include timber trafficking, the illegal recycling of polluting components of ships and serious breaches of legislation on chemicals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new law also introduces a \u2018qualified offence\u2019 clause which applies when an offence referred to in the directive is committed intentionally and causes the destruction of or irreversible or long-lasting damage to the environment.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Penalties and sanctions<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Intentional offences which cause the death of a person will be punishable with a maximum prison sentence of at least ten years (member states may decide to provide for even tougher penalties in their national legislation). Other offences will result in emprisonment of up to five years. The maximum prison sentence for qualified offences will be at least eight years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For companies the fines will be at least 5% of the total worldwide turnover for the most serious offences or alternatively \u20ac40 million. For all other offences, the maximum fine will be at least 3% of turnover or alternatively \u20ac24 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Member states will have to make sure that natural persons and companies may be sanctioned by additional measures such as an obligation for the offender to reinstate the environment or compensate for the damage, excluding them from access to public funding or withdrawing their permits or authorisations.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 99.9988%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: double; border-color: #001f7d;\" cellpadding=\"0,5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/pacto-verde-europeo-la-comision-propone-que-se-refuerce-la-proteccion-del-medio-ambiente-mediante-el-derecho-penal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/meritt-thomas-R-8vTdXjHoA-unsplash-scaled-e1639737191504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/european-green-deal-commission-proposes-to-strengthen-the-protection-of-the-environment-through-criminal-law\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Green Deal: Commission proposes to strengthen the protection of the environment through criminal law<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Next steps<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Member states have two years from the entry into force of the directive to adapt their national rules to the directive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>More information: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/press\/press-releases\/2024\/03\/26\/environmental-crime-council-clears-new-eu-law-with-tougher-sanctions-and-extended-list-of-offences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council of the European Union<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council formally adopted a directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law. 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