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Preliminary Reference on Environmental Liability and the Polluter Pays Principle: C ase C ‐534/13, F ipa
Author(s) -
Sadeleer Nicolas
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
review of european, comparative and international environmental law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.37
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2050-0394
pISSN - 2050-0386
DOI - 10.1111/reel.12115
Subject(s) - liability , polluter pays principle , precautionary principle , law and economics , action (physics) , business , environmental policy , political science , law , economics , environmental economics , physics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , quantum mechanics
E uropean U nion ( EU ) environmental policy is the sole EU policy to proclaim a cluster of principles, including the polluter pays principle, the precautionary principle and the principles that preventive action should be taken and environmental damage rectified at source as a matter of priority. Although various understandings and definitions of these principles exist in international environmental law, the EU treaties provide no such definition. Lawyers are thus increasingly inquiring into the types of role these principles play, or may play in the legal practice. The Fipa case, examined in this case note, is one such example.