Criminal Liability as Tool for Environmental Protection

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Criminal Liability as Tool for Environmental Protection
Original language description
At the end of 2008, Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law was adopted, stating in its Preambule, that ?the existing systems of penalties have not been sufficient to achieve complete compliance with the laws for the protection of the environment?. The Member states were supposed to transpose this Directive till December 2010. In the Czech Republic, only natural (physical) persons were liable for criminal offences up to the beginning of 2012, when a new law was passed introducing the criminal liability of legal persons. Up to 2012, offences of legal persons were subject to sanctions which were usually imposed in the administrative procedure. The contribution will investigate the necessity to make natural and legal persons criminally liable not only from the EU law transposition point of view, but also from practical reasons, such as the impossibility to impose administrative fine, if a crime was committed according to the Czech Water Act in one of its previo
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP408%2F11%2F0339" target="_blank" >GAP408/11/0339: Environmental law liability - current state and perspectives</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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