Principles of environmental responsibility : Criminal liability

Criminal liability
Principles of environmental responsibility

Author : Valérie LACOQUELLE

Publication date: October 10, 2002 | Lire en français

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3. Criminal liability

In recent years, environmental criminal law has undergone a number of upheavals, due on the one hand to the multiplication of incriminations likely to incur criminal liability for ecological damage and, on the other, to the entry into force of the new penal code, which allows criminal proceedings to be brought against legal entities.

3.1 Diversity of environmental offences

Without claiming to be exhaustive, the main offences can be grouped into two categories: pollution and nuisance (table 1 ) and environments and species (table 2 ).

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