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

Minutes

A written document issued by a competent authority to establish the existence of a fact liable to result in administrative or penal sanctions.

Liability

Obligation to answer for damage before the courts and to assume the administrative, civil and penal consequences.

Administrative liability

Obligation to answer for damage caused to the administration.

Civil liability

Liability for damage caused to private parties (e.g. neighbors, co-contractors).

Environmental responsibility

Liability for environmental damage.

Criminal liability

Obligation to answer for offences committed.

Ecological services

Ecosystems provide numerous services, known as ecological services. These are natural processes that are useful and often necessary to human populations, without them having to act to obtain them: for example,...