Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) approved, on Thursday 18 March, the draft legislative initiative report by Antonius Manders (EPP, Netherlands) on company environmental liability.
Adopted with a comfortable majority (19 votes in favour, 6 against), this report aims to provide recommendations to the European Commission on the liability of companies for environmental damage so that it can integrate them into its future legislative proposals.
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