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Transboundary Environmental Damage and the Law of the European Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Monika Hinteregger
Monika Hinteregger*
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University of Graz, Austria
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International Law and the Liability for Catastrophic Environmental Damage
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 105 , 2011 , pp. 433 - 436
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2011

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References

1 See Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), arts. 26, 124, Dec. 13, 2007, 2008/C 115/01, available at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4bl7a07e2.html.

2 The regulations and directives according to TFEU Article 288.

3 Oj L 334, 17.12.2010, p. 17 (recast).

4 Oj L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40, as amended by 97/11/EC and 2003/35/EC.

5 Oj L 10, 14.1.1997, p. 13. Under the impression of major industrial accidents on European territory, the scope of the Directive was extended by Directive 2003/105/EC, Oj L 345, 31.12.2003, p. 97, to include risks posed by storage and processing activities in mining, by pyrotechnic and explosive substances, and the storage of ammonium nitrate and ammonium nitrate-based fertilizers.

6 Art. 13(2).

7 See Andrea Francovich and Others v. Italian Republic, Joined Cases C-6/90 and C-9/90 [1991] ECR 1-5357.

8 Council Regulation 2001/44/EC on Jurisdiction and the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, Oj L 12, 16.1.2001, p. 1.

9 Regulation 864/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations, Oj L 199, 31.7.2007, p. 40.

10 See Posch, Willibald, Some Observations on the Law Applicable to Transfrontier Environmental Damage, in Environmental Liability and Ecological Damage 33 (Hinteregger, Monika ed., 2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 Case 21/76 [1976] ECR 1735.

12 Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters, Oj C 27, 26.1.1998, p.l.

13 For a comprehensive analysis of the rules of 13 EU Member States, see Environmental Liability and Ecological Damage (Monika Hinteregger ed., 2008).

14 Directive 2004/35/CE on Environmental Liability with Regard to the Prevention and Remedying of Environmen tal Damage, Oj L 143, 30.4.2004, p. 56 (entered into force Apr. 30, 2004).

15 See ELD Art. 4 and Annexes 4, 5.