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As Austrian environmental law is shaped by the Austrian federal legal system, the Austrian polity and allocation of competences is outlined in the following.
What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment?
What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment?
The Government has approved the list of installations in Bulgaria that will participate in the European scheme for greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading from 2013, as well as the allowances allocated to each of them.
What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment?
What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment?
Most of the Danish environmental regulation is based on directives from the EU.
The High Court has found that the National Asset Management Agency is subject to the European Communities (Access to Environmental Information) Regulations 2007.
The EU Climate Change Package provides for a substantial change to the current European Trading Scheme.
As of 7 January 2013, certain industries will become subject to more stringent environmental investigation and reporting obligations.
On 13 February 2012 the European Commission published a strategy and an action plan termed "Innovating for Sustainable Growth.
Policymakers, the European Central Bank ("ECB") and the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") continue to search for a way to alleviate the Eurozone’s debt crisis.
Discussion of the judgement pronounced by the Court of Justice on 26 May 2011 (combined cases C-165/09 to C-167/09, inclusive).
A draft report published on 24 August 2011 sheds light on which products may soon be affected by EU environmental rules under the EU’s ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC).
On the basis of the Act on the Accession of 2003, Estonia and other 6 new members of the EU were each granted a transitional period for maintaining the existing legislation restricting the acquisition of agricultural land and forest until 1st of May 2011.
The Finnish Supreme Court has ruled on environmental liability in four different cases after the Act on Compensation for Environmental Damage came into effect in 1995.
Attorneys at law Borenius has drafted an assessment report to the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry regarding necessary amendments to the liability system in the animal feed legislation.
The new Finnish Waste Act and amendments related to it in the Environmental Protection Act entered into force on 1 May 2012.
Natural values and their protection were included in the Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen’s government programme as an area for improvement.
The Government Decree No. 82/2011 (V.8.) ("Decree") adopted by the Hungarian Government inter alia has also amended the Government Decree No. 314/2005 (25. XII.) on the environmental impact assessment, which will dramatically increase the number of environmental impact assessments carried out from September.
What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment?
The Government has approved the list of installations in Bulgaria that will participate in the European scheme for greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading from 2013, as well as the allowances allocated to each of them.
On the basis of the Act on the Accession of 2003, Estonia and other 6 new members of the EU were each granted a transitional period for maintaining the existing legislation restricting the acquisition of agricultural land and forest until 1st of May 2011.
The Finnish Supreme Court has ruled on environmental liability in four different cases after the Act on Compensation for Environmental Damage came into effect in 1995.
During the spring 2011, the Finnish parliament has enacted several new statutes that are related to the environmental legislation. New Mining Act, Water Act, Waste Act and two amendments of Land Use and Building Act (132/1999) have been ratified. In addition, the sections of the Act on Production Subsidy of the Electric Power Generated with Renewable Sources of Energy concerning the supply tariffs entered into force on 25 March 2011. The objectives and salient points of the new regulation are di
New rates and other changes are being made to the Environmental Protection Product Charge.
In March 2011, the Irish High Court temporarily reversed a 10 year practice of imposing personal liability on company officers to pay for environmental clean up of the company’s waste.
The European Union has finally succeeded in introducing a directive to establish a harmonised pan-EU framework for the regulation and supervision of the activities of alternative investment fund managers ("AIFM").
January 2013 saw the long-awaited ruling of the Dutch court in the five cases brought by campaigning NGO Friends of the Earth against Royal Dutch Shell.
On 28 December 2012, the President signed the Waste Law of 14 December 2012.
What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment?
A new Spanish Law on air pollution has been published and is likely to lead to increasingly strict controls on air emissions for many sectors.
Turkey has become a party to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) on May 24 2004 and to Kyoto Protocol on August 26,2009.
Impact Assessment is simply defined as the process of identifying the future consequences of a current or proposed action.
After some significant delay and indecision by the Government, it has now been determined that quoted companies must from 2013 report on a mandatory basis on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as part of the directors’ report.
The Court of Appeal recently heard an appeal that raises important issues relating to requirements for Environmental Impact Assessments, the granting of environment permits, associated public consultations and the disclosure of reports by the Environment Agency.
The European Commission has published a draft Decision and ‘Questions and Answers’ ("Q&As"), elaborating on its proposal to ‘stop the clock’ on the international aviation elements of the EU Emissions Trading System ("EU ETS") while the ICAO attempts to broker a global settlement.
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The Finnish Supreme Court has ruled on environmental liability in four different cases after the Act on Compensation for Environmental Damage came into effect in 1995.
The Draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Directors’ Reports) Regulations 2013 (Draft Regulations) were published by Defra for consultation on 25 July 2012.
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Order 2013 will soon replace in its entirety the 2010 Order for the operation of the now much criticised CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.
What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment?
Turkey has become a party to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) on May 24 2004 and to Kyoto Protocol on August 26,2009.
What are the main statutes and regulations relating to the environment?
January 2013 saw the long-awaited ruling of the Dutch court in the five cases brought by campaigning NGO Friends of the Earth against Royal Dutch Shell.
On 2 January 2013, the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2012 (RoHS 2) came into force in the UK.
Large scale infrastructure projects in the UK and around the world are under increasingly close scrutiny from campaigning NGOs and ethical investment indices.
As Austrian environmental law is shaped by the Austrian federal legal system, the Austrian polity and allocation of competences is outlined in the following.
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