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Different legal mechanisms can regulate actions that are dangerous to the environment in different ways. The IAES proposes the use of international and EU criminal jurisdictions to prevent and punish environmental crime, and puts forwards suggestions for relevant institutional reform.The two levels of the reform proposed by the IAES, that is European and international, would correspond to different rationalities, and could be complementary to each other. However, a reflection on the elements of an ...

This paper summarises findings obtained during a delegation of the Legal Affairs Committee to Washington DC (28th September – 2nd October 2010) in the field of impact assessment. The US system is briefly set out through a presentation of the relevant institutional structures and bodies, as well as procedures and methods, applied by the Congress during the legislative process and, in a much more systematic manner, by the administration (agencies) during the adoption of implementing regulations.