Environmental Code.

(Umweltgesetzbuch - UGB). Draft. Prepared by the Independent Expert Commission on the Environmental Code at the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-428-49227-5
Verlag: Duncker & Humblot
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 423 Seiten

This draft Environmental Code is intended to bring together, unify, harmonise, develop and update German environmental law. The codification project takes up a transnational legal trend that has already led to the passing of similar legislation in a number of countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom or the preparation of corresponding drafts, as in France, Sweden, Poland and Hungary. The European Union is also looking into the codification of environmental law.

The Commission's draft applies the principle of sustainable environmentally sound development and establishes an integrated cross-media approach in all areas of environmental legislation. One of its principal features is the unified project authorisation model (Vorhabengenehmigung) for environmental legislation, which the Federal Government intends to use as a basis for the planned implementation of the IPPC Directive in a first volume of an Environmental Code. Other aims pursued by the Commission were to strengthen the responsibility of enterprises and of society, develop incentive instruments and expand transboundary environmental protection.

The draft was prepared between autumn 1992 and summer 1997. The Commission consisted of eight experts with practical experience in the field of environmental law as judges, university teaching staff, lawyers, administrative officials and an environmental officer in a large industrial company.

This volume contains the English translation of the draft. It seeks to make a contribution to international and European discussions about the harmonisation and codification of environmental law. For this reason the introduction to the English version also contains observations about the German legal system and existing environmental legislation which should make it easier for the reader to understand the proposals.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Inhaltsübersicht: Introduction - Draft - General Part: Chapter One: General Provisions - Chapter Two: Planning - Chapter Three: Projects - Chapter Four: Products - Chapter Five: Intervention Measures and Monitoring - Chapter Six: Environmental Protection within Companies, Environmental Liability and Other Economic Instruments - Chapter Seven: Environmental Information - Chapter Eight: Transboundary Environmental Protection - Specific Part: Chapter Nine: Nature Conservation, Landscape Management and Forest Conservation - Chapter Ten: Soil Conservation - Chapter Eleven: Water Conservation - Chapter Twelve: Immission Control and Energy Supply - Chapter Thirteen: Nuclear Energy and Radiological Protection - Chapter Fourteen: Traffic Infrastructure Projects and Utility Lines - Chapter Fifteen: Genetic Engineering and Other Biotechnology - Chapter Sixteen: Dangerous Substances - Chapter Seventeen: Waste - Table of Statutes - Index