The seminar organized at the ERA Congress Center in Trier, Germany, will deal with recent developments in European environmental law, primarily by analyzing the European Court of Justice's recent case law and the activities of the other European Union institutions in the field of environmental law. More specifically, the following topics will be examined:The new package on climate change and energy; Implementation of the IPPC Directive and future policy on industrial emissions; The new environmental liability directive, of which the transposition period expired at the end of April 2007; The Aarhus Convention, access to justice, application to the EC institutions; The new proposal for a directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law; Recent developments in waste management; Incentive measures: taxation and state aids. In English and German with simultaneous interpretation.
