Edited by Marjan Peeters, Professor of Environmental Policy and Law and Mariolina Eliantonio, Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

‘This book provides an excellent and comprehensive overview of the main topics and equips the reader with a rich basis of information and expertise. It invites the interested reader to join a discussion which covers many layers, sectors, institutions, successes, and challenges. More than simply enabling the reader to understand contemporary discourses in EU environmental law, it also brings to the forefront powerful ideas for improving its content and application in pursuit of an environmentally sustainable Europe.’

• Contents:Introduction: the challenge of understanding EU environmental law Marjan Peeters & Mariolina Eliantonio (editors)PART 1: INSTITUTIONAL AND HORIZONTAL ISSUES 1.Competences for EU environmental legislation: about blurry boundaries and potential opportunities Helle Tegner Anker2.Where eagles dare: How much further may EU Member States go under Article 193 TFEU? Leonie Reins 3.Principles of EU environmental law, including the objective of sustainable development Gyula Bándi 4.The institutional architecture of EU environmental governance: the role of EU agencies Annalisa Volpato & Ellen Vos 5.The EU’s External Action after Lisbon: Competences, Policy Consistency and Participation in International Environmental NegotiationsAntonio Cardesa-Salzmann & Elisa Morgera 6.Environment and trade law in the EU: Seeing the bees for the balance Sheet Geert van Calster 7.Transnational administrative acts in EU environmental law Luca De Lucia & Maria Chiara Romano PART 2 ENVIRONMENTAL PROCEDURAL RIGHTS8.Access to environmental information under EU lawUzuazo Etemire 9.Access to public participation: Unveiling the mismatch between what law prescribes and what the public wantsLorenzo Squintani & Goda Perlaviciute10.Access to justice in environmental matters in the EU: The EU’s difficult road towards non-compliance with the Aarhus ConventionMatthijs van Wolferen & Mariolina Eliantonio 11.Environmental Impact Assessment in the EUAgustín García-Ureta PART 3: COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS12.Direct effect in EU environmental law: towards the end of a doctrine? Ludwig Krämer 13.Environmental Inspection by public authorities Martin Hedemann-Robinson 14.Enforcing environmental law through infringements and sanctioning: steering not rowing Melanie SmithPART 4: LIABILITY 15.Environmental liability: The difficulty of harmonizing different national civil liability systems Barbara Pozzo 16.Environmental criminal liability Michael Faure PART 5: SUBSTANTIVE APPROACHES 17.EU nature conservation law: fit for purpose An Cliquet 18.Beyond the 2019 Fitness Check of the Water Framework Directive: designing the future of European Water Law Nathalie Hervé-Fournereau 19.EU Air Pollution Law: Comprehensive But Insufficient Kendro Pedrosa & Bernard Vanheusden20.Integrated Pollution and Prevention: A critical legal perspective on all-inclusive integrationLolke S Braaksma & Hanna Tolsma21.Waste Framework Directive and the Circular EconomyChris Backes 22.Industrial chemicals in the regulatory laboratory: self-responsibility and inclusive governance Martin Führ & Julian Schenten 23.The Perfect Storm: GMO Governance and The EU Technocratic Turn.Giulia Claudia Leonelli 24.Light-vehicles Emissions Standards under EU Law in the wake of the `Diesn, Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Hasselt University, Belgiumelgate’ Nicolas de Sadeleer 25.The EU’s approach to environmentally sustainable business: can disclosure overcome the failings of shareholder primacy?Andrew Johnston & Beate Sjåfjell PART 6 : CLIMATE LAW 26.The Paris Agreement, EU Climate Law and the Energy Union Estelle Brosset & Sandrine Maljean-Dubois 27.The EU Effort Sharing and LULUCF Regulations: The Complementary yet Crucial Components of the EU’s Climate Policy Beyond 2030 Seita Romppanen 28.EU emissions trading: its regulatory evolution and the role of the CourtStefan Weishaar 29.Energy efficiency and energy saving – the “first fuel”Thomas Schomerus PART 7: CONCLUSIONS30.On Regulatory Power, Compliance, and the Role of the Court in EU Environmental Law Marjan Peeters & Mariolina Eliantonio Index

Edited by Marjan Peeters, Professor of Environmental Policy and Law and Mariolina Eliantonio, Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

‘This book provides an excellent and comprehensive overview of the main topics and equips the reader with a rich basis of information and expertise. It invites the interested reader to join a discussion which covers many layers, sectors, institutions, successes, and challenges. More than simply enabling the reader to understand contemporary discourses in EU environmental law, it also brings to the forefront powerful ideas for improving its content and application in pursuit of an environmentally sustainable Europe.’

• Contents:Introduction: the challenge of understanding EU environmental law Marjan Peeters & Mariolina Eliantonio (editors)PART 1: INSTITUTIONAL AND HORIZONTAL ISSUES 1.Competences for EU environmental legislation: about blurry boundaries and potential opportunities Helle Tegner Anker2.Where eagles dare: How much further may EU Member States go under Article 193 TFEU? Leonie Reins 3.Principles of EU environmental law, including the objective of sustainable development Gyula Bándi 4.The institutional architecture of EU environmental governance: the role of EU agencies Annalisa Volpato & Ellen Vos 5.The EU’s External Action after Lisbon: Competences, Policy Consistency and Participation in International Environmental NegotiationsAntonio Cardesa-Salzmann & Elisa Morgera 6.Environment and trade law in the EU: Seeing the bees for the balance Sheet Geert van Calster 7.Transnational administrative acts in EU environmental law Luca De Lucia & Maria Chiara Romano PART 2 ENVIRONMENTAL PROCEDURAL RIGHTS8.Access to environmental information under EU lawUzuazo Etemire 9.Access to public participation: Unveiling the mismatch between what law prescribes and what the public wantsLorenzo Squintani & Goda Perlaviciute10.Access to justice in environmental matters in the EU: The EU’s difficult road towards non-compliance with the Aarhus ConventionMatthijs van Wolferen & Mariolina Eliantonio 11.Environmental Impact Assessment in the EUAgustín García-Ureta PART 3: COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS12.Direct effect in EU environmental law: towards the end of a doctrine? Ludwig Krämer 13.Environmental Inspection by public authorities Martin Hedemann-Robinson 14.Enforcing environmental law through infringements and sanctioning: steering not rowing Melanie SmithPART 4: LIABILITY 15.Environmental liability: The difficulty of harmonizing different national civil liability systems Barbara Pozzo 16.Environmental criminal liability Michael Faure PART 5: SUBSTANTIVE APPROACHES 17.EU nature conservation law: fit for purpose An Cliquet 18.Beyond the 2019 Fitness Check of the Water Framework Directive: designing the future of European Water Law Nathalie Hervé-Fournereau 19.EU Air Pollution Law: Comprehensive But Insufficient Kendro Pedrosa & Bernard Vanheusden20.Integrated Pollution and Prevention: A critical legal perspective on all-inclusive integrationLolke S Braaksma & Hanna Tolsma21.Waste Framework Directive and the Circular EconomyChris Backes 22.Industrial chemicals in the regulatory laboratory: self-responsibility and inclusive governance Martin Führ & Julian Schenten 23.The Perfect Storm: GMO Governance and The EU Technocratic Turn.Giulia Claudia Leonelli 24.Light-vehicles Emissions Standards under EU Law in the wake of the `Diesn, Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Hasselt University, Belgiumelgate’ Nicolas de Sadeleer 25.The EU’s approach to environmentally sustainable business: can disclosure overcome the failings of shareholder primacy?Andrew Johnston & Beate Sjåfjell PART 6 : CLIMATE LAW 26.The Paris Agreement, EU Climate Law and the Energy Union Estelle Brosset & Sandrine Maljean-Dubois 27.The EU Effort Sharing and LULUCF Regulations: The Complementary yet Crucial Components of the EU’s Climate Policy Beyond 2030 Seita Romppanen 28.EU emissions trading: its regulatory evolution and the role of the CourtStefan Weishaar 29.Energy efficiency and energy saving – the “first fuel”Thomas Schomerus PART 7: CONCLUSIONS30.On Regulatory Power, Compliance, and the Role of the Court in EU Environmental Law Marjan Peeters & Mariolina Eliantonio Index

Edited by Marjan Peeters, Professor of Environmental Policy and Law and Mariolina Eliantonio, Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

‘This book provides an excellent and comprehensive overview of the main topics and equips the reader with a rich basis of information and expertise. It invites the interested reader to join a discussion which covers many layers, sectors, institutions, successes, and challenges. More than simply enabling the reader to understand contemporary discourses in EU environmental law, it also brings to the forefront powerful ideas for improving its content and application in pursuit of an environmentally sustainable Europe.’

• Contents:Introduction: the challenge of understanding EU environmental law Marjan Peeters & Mariolina Eliantonio (editors)PART 1: INSTITUTIONAL AND HORIZONTAL ISSUES 1.Competences for EU environmental legislation: about blurry boundaries and potential opportunities Helle Tegner Anker2.Where eagles dare: How much further may EU Member States go under Article 193 TFEU? Leonie Reins 3.Principles of EU environmental law, including the objective of sustainable development Gyula Bándi 4.The institutional architecture of EU environmental governance: the role of EU agencies Annalisa Volpato & Ellen Vos 5.The EU’s External Action after Lisbon: Competences, Policy Consistency and Participation in International Environmental NegotiationsAntonio Cardesa-Salzmann & Elisa Morgera 6.Environment and trade law in the EU: Seeing the bees for the balance Sheet Geert van Calster 7.Transnational administrative acts in EU environmental law Luca De Lucia & Maria Chiara Romano PART 2 ENVIRONMENTAL PROCEDURAL RIGHTS8.Access to environmental information under EU lawUzuazo Etemire 9.Access to public participation: Unveiling the mismatch between what law prescribes and what the public wantsLorenzo Squintani & Goda Perlaviciute10.Access to justice in environmental matters in the EU: The EU’s difficult road towards non-compliance with the Aarhus ConventionMatthijs van Wolferen & Mariolina Eliantonio 11.Environmental Impact Assessment in the EUAgustín García-Ureta PART 3: COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS12.Direct effect in EU environmental law: towards the end of a doctrine? Ludwig Krämer 13.Environmental Inspection by public authorities Martin Hedemann-Robinson 14.Enforcing environmental law through infringements and sanctioning: steering not rowing Melanie SmithPART 4: LIABILITY 15.Environmental liability: The difficulty of harmonizing different national civil liability systems Barbara Pozzo 16.Environmental criminal liability Michael Faure PART 5: SUBSTANTIVE APPROACHES 17.EU nature conservation law: fit for purpose An Cliquet 18.Beyond the 2019 Fitness Check of the Water Framework Directive: designing the future of European Water Law Nathalie Hervé-Fournereau 19.EU Air Pollution Law: Comprehensive But Insufficient Kendro Pedrosa & Bernard Vanheusden20.Integrated Pollution and Prevention: A critical legal perspective on all-inclusive integrationLolke S Braaksma & Hanna Tolsma21.Waste Framework Directive and the Circular EconomyChris Backes 22.Industrial chemicals in the regulatory laboratory: self-responsibility and inclusive governance Martin Führ & Julian Schenten 23.The Perfect Storm: GMO Governance and The EU Technocratic Turn.Giulia Claudia Leonelli 24.Light-vehicles Emissions Standards under EU Law in the wake of the `Diesn, Professor of Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, Hasselt University, Belgiumelgate’ Nicolas de Sadeleer 25.The EU’s approach to environmentally sustainable business: can disclosure overcome the failings of shareholder primacy?Andrew Johnston & Beate Sjåfjell PART 6 : CLIMATE LAW 26.The Paris Agreement, EU Climate Law and the Energy Union Estelle Brosset & Sandrine Maljean-Dubois 27.The EU Effort Sharing and LULUCF Regulations: The Complementary yet Crucial Components of the EU’s Climate Policy Beyond 2030 Seita Romppanen 28.EU emissions trading: its regulatory evolution and the role of the CourtStefan Weishaar 29.Energy efficiency and energy saving – the “first fuel”Thomas Schomerus PART 7: CONCLUSIONS30.On Regulatory Power, Compliance, and the Role of the Court in EU Environmental Law Marjan Peeters & Mariolina Eliantonio Index