EU environmental law, governance and decision-making / Maria Lee.
2014
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Author
Title
EU environmental law, governance and decision-making / Maria Lee.
Uniform Title
EU environmental law
Published
Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
KJE6242 .L44 2014
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9781849464215 (paperback)
1849464219 (paperback)
1849464219 (paperback)
Description
xxx, 270 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)872987503
Note
Revision of the author's EU environmental law.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
Variant Title
European Union environmental law, governance and decision-making
Table of Contents
Preface
v
Table of Cases
xi
Table of Legislation
xvii
1.
The Treaties and the Environment
1
Introduction
1
The Environment Title
2
Article 191
Environmental Objectives and Considerations
3
Article 191(2)
The Environmental Principles
4
Article 192
Decision-Making on the Environment
16
Article 193
National Autonomy on the Environment
17
The Context for EU Action on the Environment
19
The EU Charter on Fundamental Rights
22
Conclusions
27
2.
EU Environmental Decision-Making: Experts, Politics and Institutions
28
Introduction
28
Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis
29
Expertise and Politics in EU Risk Regulation
38
The Institutions of Expertise and Politics in EU Administration
44
Agencies
44
Comitology
47
Good Reasons in EU Environmental Law
52
Conclusions
56
3.
Sustainable Development
57
Introduction
57
The International Evolution of Sustainable Development
58
Sustainable Development in EU Law and Policy
63
Environmental Integration
67
The Green Economy
69
Implementation and Governance of Sustainable Development
72
Conclusions
79
4.
Instruments and Governance I: Setting the Scene
81
Introduction
81
Direct Regulation
82
Themes of New Governance
85
Flexibility
86
Collaborative Governance
89
Information and Learning
90
Perennial Concerns
92
Instruments of Regulation
96
Economic Instruments
97
Voluntary Instruments and Corporate Social Responsibility
101
Information as a Tool of Regulation
104
Conclusions
106
5.
Instruments and Governance II: The Direct Regulation of Industrial Pollution
108
Introduction
108
Introducing the IED
109
Collaborative Governance in Seville
113
Harmonisation: The Role of BREFs
119
Institutional Learning
124
Implementation and Enforcement
126
Conclusions
131
6.
Instruments and Governance III: Climate Change
132
Introduction
132
International Context
134
Emissions Trading
137
The Cap
138
Allocation of Allowances
140
Mitigation beyond the EU
142
Flexibility in the ETS
144
Concluding Comments
145
The Renewable Energy Directive
147
Energy Efficiency
154
Conclusions
157
7.
Participation in Environmental Decision-Making in the Member States: Environmental Assessment
159
Introduction
159
The Aarhus Convention
160
Environmental Assessment
164
Environmental Impact Assessment
166
Strategic Environmental Assessment
171
The Success of Environmental Assessment?
174
Explaining Participation
176
Conclusions
180
8.
Participation in Environmental Decision-Making at the EU Level
182
Introduction
182
Public Participation in the Treaties
183
The Citizens' Initiative
187
The Aarhus Regulation
190
Who Participates?
192
Access to Environmental Information at the EU Level
197
Conclusions
201
9.
Authorising Products in the Internal Market: The Regulation of Chemicals in the EU
203
Introduction
203
The Regulatory Regime
204
Information
207
Privatisation of Information
207
Information as a Regulatory Tool
209
Limitations on Information in REACH
210
Information: Concluding Comments
213
Centralisation and the Role of the Member States
213
Public Participation in Decision-Making
216
Authorisation: Beyond Risk?
219
Conclusions
222
10.
After Authorisation in the Internal Market: GMOs and National Autonomy
224
Introduction
224
Authorisation
225
Art 114 TFEU: The `Environmental Guarantee'
227
Safeguard Clauses
231
The `New Approach' to GMO Cultivation
234
Co-Existence
244
Conclusions
246
Conclusions
248
Index
252