The role of EU agencies in fighting transnational environmental crime : new challenges for Eurojust and Europol / by Valsamis Mitsilegas and Fabio Giuffrida.
2017
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Title
The role of EU agencies in fighting transnational environmental crime : new challenges for Eurojust and Europol / by Valsamis Mitsilegas and Fabio Giuffrida.
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Call Number
KJE8781.E58 M58 2017
ISBN
9789004341548 (paperback)
9004341544 (paperback)
9789004341555 (e-book)
9004341544 (paperback)
9789004341555 (e-book)
Description
ix, 150 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)965535060
Summary
"The last decades have witnessed a growing emphasis on the relationship between environmental law and criminal law. Legislation aimed at tackling environmental crime has been adopted at national, EU, and international level and has been gradually evolving over time. These developments notwithstanding, the current legal framework faces a number of challenges in tackling the largely inter-related phenomena of transnational, organised and economic environmental crime. This study by Valsamis Mitsilegas and Fabio Giuffrida addresses these challenges by focusing on the role of the European Union- and more specifically its criminal justice agencies (Europol and Eurojust)- in tackling transnational environmental crime. The study analyses the role of Eurojust and Europol in supporting and coordinating the competent national authorities dealing with investigations and/or prosecutions on transnational environmental crime, and it shows that, for the time being, the full potential of these agencies is not adequately exploited with regard to fighting this phenomenon effectively"--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-150).
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Role of European Union agencies in fighting transnational environmental crime
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Abbreviations
viii
Role of EU Agencies in Fighting Transnational Environmental Crime: New Challenges for Eurojust and Europol / Fabio Giuffrida
1
Abstract
1
Keywords
1
1.
Introduction
2
2.
Transnational Environmental Crime and the EU Perspective: Preliminary Remarks
3
2.1.
Environmental Crime as a Transnational (Organised) Crime
3
2.2.
Between Transnational Criminal Law and EU Criminal Law: Why Focus on EU Agencies and Environmental Crime?
16
3.
Environmental Crime in the EU
21
3.1.
Protection of the Environment within the EU: A Short History
21
3.2.
Environmental Crime and the Ship-Source Pollution Cases
28
3.3.
Substantive EU Criminal Law on Environmental Crime: An Overview
32
3.4.
National Investigations and Mutual Recognition: The Limits of the Environmental Criminal Legislation
39
3.5.
EU Legislation on Organised (Environmental) Crime
44
3.6.
Environmental Crime and the Treaty of Lisbon: Hope Dies Last
51
3.7.
Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary and Multiagency Approach to Transnational Environmental Crime
55
4.
Eurojust, Europol and Environmental Crime: Setting the Scene
57
4.1.
Competence of the Agencies and Framing of Their Activities (`Operational' and `Non-operational')
58
4.2.
Eurojust: Structure and Operational Activities
64
4.3.
Europol: Structure and Operational Activities
73
4.4.
`Non-operational' Tasks of the Agencies and the Policy Cycle
77
4.5.
Theory vs Practice: The Exchange of Information and the Evolving Role of EU Agencies
81
5.
Europol and Transnational Environmental Crime
85
5.1.
`Non-operational' Activities of Europol in the Field of Environmental Crime
85
5.2.
Operational Activities: Limited Analysis, Increasing Cooperation
92
5.3.
Europol and the Fight against Transnational Environmental Crime: An Assessment
98
6.
Eurojust and Transnational Environmental Crime
102
6.1.
Eurojust and the Coordination of National Authorities: Limited Cases vs Great Potential
102
6.2.
Growing `Non-operational' Role of Eurojust in the Field of Environmental Crime
107
6.3.
Eurojust and the Fight against Transnational Environmental Crime: An Assessment
110
7.
Europol, Eurojust and Environmental Crime: To the Future and Beyond, Waiting for the European Public Prosecutor's Office
114
7.1.
EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking: The Need for More Europol and Eurojust
114
7.2.
European Public Prosecutor's Office and Its Possible Competence on Environmental Crimes
119
8.
Conclusion
125
Bibliography
127
Articles, Books and Studies
127
Council of Europe, EU, Interpol, and UN Documents
140
Case Law
148
Interviews
149
Websites
149