The European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) adopted unanimously (22 votes), on Tuesday 21 March, its position on the revision of the Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law (2008/99/EC). All the compromise amendments were adopted.
The text, put forward by MEP Antonius Manders (EPP, Dutch), aims to strengthen the EU’s rules on cracking down on environmental crime. It thus extends the list of offences within the European Community and provides...