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Eine neue Dimension der Umwelthaftung in Europa?

Eine Analyse der Europäischen Richtlinie zur Umwelthaftung

In the ZUR - Zeitschrift für Umweltrecht, Peter Beyer analyses the new European Directive on environmental liability. The liability for damages caused to the environment by emissions as well as accidents in the field of industrial productions and transportation of dangerous goods belongs to the issues which have been controversially discussed in politics for years, regularly brought up by spectacular accidents as in Baia Mare or the sinking of the Prestige off the Spanish coast.Read more

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Multilateral Environmetal Agreements (MEAs) and WTO Rules

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10 May 2004

Szentendre

Hungary

In the framework of the EC funded Programme "Raising the awareness of trade issues in civil society", Ecologic is organising a one-day seminar in Budapest, Hungary. The aim of the seminar is to provide participants from civil society with a better understanding of the relationship between multilateral environmental agreements and WTO rules, to raise awareness on how better to participate in and influence European trade policy and to contribute to a closer co-operation and networking among civil society groups in Hungary. The Seminar languages will be English and Hungarian. Read more

Project

Climate

Environmental Law

Ecologic Legal

Preparation of a Handbook on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

January 2004 to July 2005

Commissioned by the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Ecologic is preparing an official handbook on the UNFCCC. Read more

Project

Global Environment

Environmental Law

Ecologic Legal

Implementation and Development of International Environmental Law

June 2003 to May 2005

Ecologic is providing ad hoc legal analysis and practical options for the current negotiations on the implementation and development of international environmental law, as well as on basic principles of international environmental law.

With the increase in international environmental regulations, implementation and compliance are proving problematic. Different instruments and approaches towards ensuring and facilitating implementation and compliance have been developed. Among these new instruments are public participation, information rights, conflict avoidance and conciliationRead more

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Participation of Non-Governmental Organisations in International Environmental Co-operation

Legal Basis and Practical Experience

The book "Participation of Non-Governmental Organisations in International Environmental Co-operation" analyses the importance of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the relationship between the legal basis and the practical influence of NGOs in different areas of international environmental governance.

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Project

EC External Competences

November 2002 to May 2003

The EC increasingly participates in international conferences and mixed international agreements alongside its Member States. The appearance of both EC and Member States raises questions of competences for the negotiation, conclusion and implementation of such international instruments. In particular in the field of marine environment, substantial progress is hindered by an opaque division of competences between the EC and its Member States and lack of coordination. Accordingly, the German Federal Environmental Agency commissioned Ecologic with the task of analysing the division of external competences between the EC and its Member States taking into account the OSPAR-Convention.Read more

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Towards Coherent Environmental and Economic Governance

Legal and Practical Approaches to MEA-WTO Linkages

Stilwell, Matthew; Richard Tarasofsky 2001: Towards Coherent Environmental and Economic Governance. Legal and Practical Approaches to MEA-WTO Linkages. Read more

Project

Environmental Law

Trade

Coherence in the MEAs/WTO Relationship

July 2001 to August 2001

This study aimed at presenting options for achieving coherence between MEAs and the WTO, and was prepared with a view to influencing the 4th Ministerial Conference of the WTO, held in Doha in November 2002.Read more

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Vorschläge zur Ausgestaltung der Kyoto-Mechanismen und deren Verknüfung mit dem System der Erfüllungskontrolle

Oberthür, Sebastian 2000: Vorschläge zur Ausgestaltung der Kyoto-Mechanismen und deren Verknüfung mit dem System der Erfüllungskontrolle. Ecologic Institut: Berlin.Read more

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Thesis

Environmental Law

Trade

Internationaler Handel und Umweltschutz

Zielkonflikte und Ansatzpunkte des Interessenausgleichs

"Trade and Environmental Protection" represents a cross-cutting issue area that must be simultaneously handled at different political levels. This book describes and analyses the institutional structures that are necessary for addressing trade and environment issues and indentifies integration strategies. In addition to being relevant to international policy-making, the topic covered in this book also reflects an area of special interest and activity at Ecologic.Read more