Greening the EU and the Rule of Law

Edited by Marjan Peeters, Professor of Environmental Policy and Law, Maastricht University, Mariolina Eliantonio, Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure, Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Kati Kulovesi, Professor of International Law, School of Law, University of Eastern Finland and Annalisa Savaresi, Professor of International Environmental Law, School of Law, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

• ContentsIntroduction: Greening the EU and the rule of law – opportunitiesand limits of the EU’s legal powers xMariolina Eliantonio, Kati Kulovesi, Marjan Peeters and AnnalisaSavaresi1 The rule of law and the EU Green Deal – uneasy interactionsbetween legal instruments and the legal systemic landscape 2Niko Soininen, Kaisa Huhta and Seita Vesa2 The bumpy landing of the EU Nature Restoration Law andthe rule of law: process and substance 25An Cliquet, Federica Cittadino and Sonja Gantioler3 Empowering the Green Deal: significant delegation andconstitutional limits in CBAM and CRMA 47Merijn Chamon and Thomas Verellen4 The different forms and content of ‘Do No Significant Harm’in EU law: in search of legal certainty 69Maurizia De Bellis5 Governing the EU’s environmental transition throughspending? Loopholes and rule of law concerns in the recoveryfunds 91Paul Dermine and Norman Vander Putten6 Recalibration of EU Internal Market law paradigms in light ofthe EU Green Deal 113Sybe A. de Vries and Ulla Neergaard7 Green monetary policy and the scope of the ECB’s mandate:maintaining the right (institutional) balance 135Alessandro Cuomo8 How green is the rule of law? Access to justice within theEuropean Green Deal legislation 158Stefano Porfido and Federica Montanaro9 The EU Green Deal, EIA and global warming: balancing therule of law with the quest for climate neutrality 185Hendrik Schoukens10 An individual right to breathe clean air, at last? The promisesand perils of state liability for air pollution 207Maxime Tecqmenne11 The Green Deal and the criminal enforcement of Europeanenvironmental law 227Giulia Giardi, Kim Geurtjens and Michael Faure12 Tempering or legitimising corporate power? The rule of lawand the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive 249Marta Paricio Montesinos13 Protecting forests and ensuring policy coherence: (in)coherence in the EU’s approach to forest protection withinpreferential trade agreements and the Deforestation Regulation 272Giovanni Dall’Agnola14 Greening the EU and the rule of law: reflections onopportunities and limits of the EU’s legal powers 296Mariolina Eliantonio, Kati Kulovesi, Marjan Peeters, Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen and Annalisa Savaresi