Download or read book German Environmental Law for Practitioners written by Horst Schlemminger and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Law for Practitioners is an invaluable, practice-related introduction to environmental law in Germany, written by specialist legal advisers with extensive experience in the practical application of environmental law. This wholly revised second edition takes account of recent developments in rapidly changing environmental legislation and case-law. It is essential reading for foreign investors as well as providing swift, ready access to legal provisions and terms in both German and English. The book comprises an English description of environmental law in Germany and a bilingual compilation of the most important environmental statute texts. After a brief introduction to German environmental law and a short discussion of the legal bases and principles, fundamental aspects of significant interest to foreign investors are examined. The regulation of environmentally relevant activities is explained in a clear, concise way. Responsibility for residual pollution is discussed in detail. The book also provides a clear overview of both environmental private law and environmental criminal law, focussing on new developments relevant to investors and outlining recent trends in environmental litigation. In addition, environmental levies and their practical application as a formative instrument of environmental policy are described. The relationship between environmental law and contract is also explored. Finally, the authors look at environmental management systems and access to environmental information. The bilingual statute texts make vital legislation on the pollution and protection of the environment available to advisers and investors alike.

Download or read book German Environmental Law for Practitioners written by Horst Schlemminger and published by Kluwer Law International. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a description of German environmental law and provides the statutory texts in both the original German language and an English translation. It informs the reader of practice related problems and helps to overcome the language barriers. The book is meant for all those involved with decisions concerning the environment in a legal context. Neither environmental pollution nor the protection of the environment stop at individual national borders. Many international business organisations operating in Germany have to take the protection of the environment into account in their investment decisions. Foreign countries have a particular interest in German environmental law which, in an international context, is of a very high standard. This book emphasises those areas where German environmental law has special practical effects.

Download or read book German Environmental Law written by Máire Mulloy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Implementing International Environmental Law in Germany and China written by Tao Zhenghua and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-08-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although all States agree that sustainable development must be provided for at the international level, it is still impossible to foresee which environmental problems are to be dealt with by the community of States rather than by States individually. The all-important debate over the development of specific measures enforceable under international law is just beginning. This book takes a major step in the progress of that debate toward a genuine global commitment to the protection of the earth and of future generations. The essays in this book represent a remarkable confluence of expert scholarly opinion on this vital subject in two of the world's most populous and powerful countries. The outcome of a symposium in Beijing in September 1999, organised jointly by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the German Research Association, the book emphasizes the urgent need for international cooperation without losing sight of the inevitable restrictions on State sovereignty inherent in solving environmental problems. The authors demonstrate that research activities should concentrate on new forms of compliance control and compliance assistance, and on the improvement of public awareness and participation, before attempting to "lay down the law" in this complex and crucial area. This is an important work for all practitioners, policymakers, academics, and researchers in any aspect of environmental studies. It points a way into the future that overcomes a number of the obstacles that impede the timely development of environmental security.

Download or read book German environmental law written by Máire Mulloy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental Law Across Cultures written by Kirk W. Junker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a practical, functional comparison among various institutions, tools, implementation practices and norms in environmental law across legal cultures. This is a new approach that focuses on the act of comparison, looking at legal practice, from the ground up, including the perspective of citizens. Most literature on comparative environmental law either focuses on a two-way comparison of state jurisdictions or simply juxtaposes environmental features of two or more state jurisdictions without engaging in any analysis of the comparison. However, this book treats legal cultures as the objects of comparison as it provides practical comparisons among various institutions, tools and norms in environmental law. The arrangement and organisation of the material reverses the more traditional presentation of comparative environmental law as a series of countries within which separate descriptions are respectively presented. In this book the reader is presented with environmental legal themes, with examples and case studies drawn from various cultures that are compared in order to help understand the theme. Case studies draw on the authors’ experiences in a range of legal cultures, including in Australia, Brazil, China, Chile, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Nigeria, Slovakia, and the USA. The comparative nature of the book allows domestic professionals to develop skills to enable them to understand and advocate broader contexts for clients, and helps students become more aware of specific legal systems while questioning why their own system functions (or does not function) as it does. The book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of environmental law as well as researchers and practitioners.

Download or read book German Environmental Law Basic Texts and Introduction written by Germany and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-09-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text addresses scholars, lawmakers, administrators, investors, and protectionists from outside Germany who do not read German but wish to have access to the sources of German environmental law. The major law texts concerning nature conservation, air quality control, water protection, waste management, road planning, environmental impact assessment and environmental liability are reproduced. Also included are the Technical Instructions on Air Quality Control, an administrative guideline of practical importance, which is often taken as a point of reference for the construction of industrial plants, even outside Germany. The law texts are accompanied by a case-related introduction to German environmental law. This text outlines German environmental law and reproduces the basic law texts in the English language.

Download or read book European and German Environmental Law and the Current Reconstruction of Legal Cultures written by Ludger Radermacher and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book German Law on Standing to Sue written by Eckard Rehbinder and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1972 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Casebook on EU Environmental Law written by Ludwig Krämer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comments on fifty key judgments which the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance have given on European Community environmental law. For each judgment,the facts and procedures are described, followed by an extract of the essential parts of the judgment and a commentary which places the judgment in its legal, environmental and political context and develops the lines of reasoning of the Court. The fifty cases selected cover all substantive and procedural aspects of Community environmental law, as regards the provisions of the EC Treaty (cases 1 to 9), horizontal problems (cases 10 to 18), water and air (cases 19 to 25), products and noise (cases 26 to 32), nature protection (cases 33 to 38), waste management (cases 39 to 45) and procedural questions (cases 46 to 50). Particular emphasis is laid on commenting on recent judgments: thus, the oldest case discussed dates from 1991 and 43 of the 50 judgments date from 1996 or later. The book provides a clear insight into the jurisdiction of the European Courts; it will be of particular use to practitioners of national and Community environmental law, researchers, law students and administrators. It is written in a comprehensible style which also makes it a useful tool for non-lawyers who deal with European Community environmental law and policy.

Download or read book Weaving a Web of Environmental Law written by Barbara J. Lausche and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sustainability and Competition Law Germany written by Eckart Bueren and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German competition law has been witnessing a long-standing discussion on how and to what extent non-economic goals can and should play a role in the application of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB). Recently, this discussion has centered on sustainability as a partly economic, partly non-economic goal, which is universally recognised, but seems to lack a clear-cut definition (see Section 2.1). Indeed, promoting sustainability, in particular with regard to climate protection and the protection of human rights in supply chains, is currently one of the most prominent hot topics in economic law in many jurisdictions. In Germany as well as in Europe, not only company law and capital market law, but also competition law has come into the focus of this debate. At the outset, it should be stressed that most scholars and practitioners in Germany share the view that sustainability, in particular climate protection, and competition law do not usually collide, as competition promotes an efficient use of resources in line with sustainability targets (see Section 3.1). However, conflicts may arise, in particular in situations of market failure (see Section 2.2). This discussion is not completely new. As a spin-off of the debate and the vast scholarship on (certain) non-economic goals and competition policy, the period between (at least) the early 1970s and the late 1990s saw an intense discussion on German competition law vis-á-vis environmental protection, in particular with regard to so-called self-restraint agreements by undertakings (Selbstbeschränkungsvereinbarungen) and regulation on waste disposal. Besides, since the 1990s, several German monographs have been devoted to the topic, placing a focus on European competition law. Especially since 2020, the discussion has gained traction again in light of the broader concept of sustainability, but is still focussing on environmental aspects, as evidenced by a steady stream of recent articles in German journals and commemorative publications. From a legal perspective, this renewed attention on sustainability-related matters is motivated by international law obligations for climate protection, both by European law and by German constitutional law (see Section 2.1). Another important driver is the practical need for companies to react to the aforementioned developments: Companies must adapt to new laws on supply chain liability and sustainable finance, to increasing societal pressure to stop ESG-irresponsible practices and to growing consumer demand for ESG compatible business behaviour and products. For these reasons, several companies have already approached the German Federal Cartel Office for advice on whether they can pursue joint sustainability initiatives (see Section 3). Against this background and in view of recent policy activities in other jurisdictions such as the Netherlands and on EU level, the current German government has announced that it will examine whether changes in the German Act against restraints of competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen - GWB) to facilitate sustainability initiatives are in order (see Section 4).

Download or read book Bridging the Gap Between International Investment Law and the Environment written by Yulia Levashova and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the topical question on how national and international environmental concerns could be adequately integrated into international investment law. It covers the question whether international investment law restricts state sovereignty in an unacceptable way - in particular, the freedom of host states to develop national policies and regulation for the improvement of the environment. The book first analyzes the interaction between international investment law and the protection of the environment, on the basis of concepts such as sustainable development, fair and equitable treatment, and international responsibility. Secondly, several chapters discuss challenges which are encountered in attempts to integrate environmental concerns in investment policies in specific sectors and regions (e.g. climate change, water pollution, renewable and nuclear energy, and the European Union region). And, finally, specific case studies illustrate the legal and policy tensions between investment law and environmental protection, namely Vattenfall's disputes with Germany, legal clashes between Chevron and Ecuador, and multinational mining companies' conflicts in Indonesia. The contributions are written by international experts and will be of interest to policy makers and practitioners. *** Librarians: ebook available (Series: Legal Perspectives for Global Challenges - Vol. 4) [Subject: International Law, Investment Law, Environmental Law]

Download or read book Conflicts in International Environmental Law written by Rüdiger Wolfrum and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-07-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an important contribution to both theoretical and practical approaches to solving contradictions and conflicts between the approaches, principles, objectives and regulations of international environmental agreements. The issue of the coordination and streamlining of environmental agreements is of growing importance regarding the increasing number of international regulations on the one hand and the urgency for effective instruments in the light of continuing environmental degradation on the other. This study will become an essential reference for scholars as well as practitioners working in the field of international environmental law.

Download or read book Procedure and Substance in International Environmental Law written by Jutta Brunnée and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interplay between procedure and substance has not been a major point of contention for international environmental lawyers. Arguably, the topic’s low profile is due to the mostly uncontroversial nature of the field’s distinction between procedural and substantive obligations. Furthermore, the vast majority of environmental law scholars and practitioners have tended to welcome the procedural features of multilateral environmental agreements and their potential to promote regime evolution and effectiveness. However, recent developments have served to put the spotlight on certain aspects of the procedure substance topic. ICJ judgments revealed ambiguity on aspects of the customary law framework on transboundary harm prevention that the field had thought largely settled. In turn, in the treaty context, the Paris Agreement’s retreat from binding emissions targets and its decisive turn towards procedure reignited concerns in some quarters over the “proceduralization” of international environmental law. The two developments invite a closer look at the respective roles of, and the relationship between, procedure and substance in this field and, more specifically, in the context of harm prevention under customary and treaty law.

Download or read book International Environmental Law written by Ulrich Beyerlin and published by Hart/Beck. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Environmental Law is a new textbook written for students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject. The overall aim of the book is to provide a fresh understanding of international environmental law as a whole, seen in the light of climate change, biodiversity loss, and the other serious environmental challenges facing the world. The book has also been kept deliberately manageable in size by careful selection of topics and by adopting a cross-cutting synthesis of regulatory interaction in the field. This enables the reader to place international environmental law in the broader context of public international law in general, revealing at the same time that international environmental law is experimental ground for developing new legal approaches towards global governance. To this end, the authors have combined theory and practice. Apart from discussing concepts, rule-making and compliance, the book looks at options for improved coordination, harmonisation and even integration of existing multilateral environmental agreements, analysing how conflicts between various environmental regimes can be avoided or, at least, adequately managed. The authors argue that an appropriate management of international environmental relations must address the North-South divide, which continues to be a major obstacle to global environmental cooperation. Furthermore, the authors emphasise the growing human rights dimension of international environmental law. This book is an ideal 'door opener' for the further study of international environmental law. Focusing on 'international environmental governance' in a comprehensive way, it serves to explain that each institution, each actor, and each instrument is part of a multi-dimensional process in international environmental law and relations.

Download or read book The German Stock Corporation Act written by Germany and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2000-04-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains an English translation of the German Stock Corporation Act. The English and German texts are synoptically arranged. The introduction provides a concise overview of the main elements of the law and facilitates an understanding of the complex statutory provisions for the English-speaking reader. The main characteristics of both types of stock corporations in Germany, the AG and the KgaA, are described and explained. Several legal aspects of stock corporations, such as their formation and management, shareholders, minority rights, capital, integration, and mergers, are treated in this book. The index is also arranged in bilingual form. The authors are partners of the law firm Hengeler Mueller Weitzel Wirtz. This second edition of the book reflects the prevailing state of legislation and will prove valuable to foreign lawyers and business people dealing with stock corporations.