Environmental liability and ICPE: stages in the procedure for challenging your liability

Environmental damage is damage that seriously affects certain components of the environment: species and natural habitats, water, soil and ecological services.

Environmental liability" is a specific system of liability designed to prevent and remedy such damage.

It is important to identify the obligations attached to your environmental responsibility, as well as the stages in the procedure for :

• damage prevention ;

• compensation for damage ;

• the penalties incurred if you fail to meet your obligations.