26/03/2024 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 26 March, the Council of the European Union formally approved the revision of the Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law. The text resulting from the inter-institutional political agreement reached with the European Parliament in November 2023 (see EUROPE B13294A4) replaces a 2008 law and extends the list of environmental criminal offences from nine to twenty, including timber trafficking and the illegal recycling of...