Amendments to the EU Environmental Crime Directive

© Stephan Sina

Print

Amendments to the EU Environmental Crime Directive

Presentation
Date
Location
online and Berlin, Germany
Panel discussion

Dr Stephan Sina, Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute, took part in a panel discussion in the Bundestag as part of a workshop on environmental crime organised by Bündnis90/Die Grünen. In his keynote speech, he outlined the most important innovations of the amended EU Environmental Crime Directive and the challenges of its implementation in Germany. The panel discussion was chaired by MdB Lukas Benner. Other panellists were Katharina Lang (WWF) on the topic of illegal timber trade and journalist Marius Münstermann on the topic of illegal waste trade.

More than 30 people took part in the hybrid event.
 

Contact

Event
Workshop Umweltkriminalität: Kampf um ein globales Milliardengeschäft
Organizer
Panel discussion
Date
Location
online and Berlin, Germany
Language
German
Keywords
Environmental criminal law, environmental crime, Environmental Crime Directive, compliance, prosecution, EU
Germany
PublicationReportUmweltdelikte 2021
 
Cover of the report "Umweltdelikte 2021"

© Umweltbundesamt

This publication provides a quantitative overview of the development and status of environmental crime in Germany between 2010 and 2020, with a supplementary presentation for the year 2021, based on data from the police crime statistics ("Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik"... Read more

Sina, Stephan; Duin, Laurens; Trötzsch, Jenny (2023): Umweltdelikte 2021. Auswertung von Statistiken. Dessau-Roßlau: Umweltbundesamt.

PresentationSpeechHearing on Strengthening the Fight Against Environmental Crime in NRW
 

Photo: 652234 | Pixabay.com

 

On 19 January 2022, Dr. Stephan Sina, Senior Fellow of Ecologic Institute, participated as an expert in a hearing of the Committee for Environment, Agriculture, Nature and Consumer Protection of the North Rhine-Westphalian Parliament on the motion of the parliamentary... Read more

Speech:Hearing on Strengthening the Fight Against Environmental Crime in NRW

Date
Location
Düsseldorf, Germany
PublicationReportStatus quo und Weiterentwicklung des Umweltstrafrechts und anderer Sanktionen
 
UBA TEXTE 135/2019
A 2018 report co-published by Interpol estimates the annual turnover generated by environmental crime at 110 - 281 billion US dollars. Environmental crime causes significant damage to the environment and public health. This report presents insights on environmental... Read more

Gerstetter, Christiane et. al. 2019: Status quo und Weiterentwicklung des Umweltstrafrechts und anderer Sanktionen: Instrumente zur Verbesserung der Befolgung von Umweltrecht (Compliance). Umweltbundesamt: Dessau-Roßlau.

PublicationReportEuropean Union Action to Fight Environmental Crime (EFFACE): Conclusions and Recommendations
 
A new report presents the conclusions and policy recommendations of the EU-funded research project, "European Union Action to Fight Environmental Crime" (EFFACE). The report includes recommendations for action to better combat environmental crime at the EU and Member... Read more

Faure, Michael; Niels Philipsen; Teresa Fajardo del Castillo et. al. (2016): Conclusions and Recommendations. Study in the framework of the EFFACE research project.