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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 40 No 2 (1994), 3–64
Právní odpovědnost v ochraně životního prostředí
[The Environmental Law Liability]
Milan Damohorský
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.343
published online: 27. 03. 2020
abstract
The monography deals with the problems and consequences relating to legal liability in the sphere of protection of environment (in Czech called “environmental law liability”) being divided into four chapters. The first chapter (the introduction) concerns principal resources of legal regulation and describes the methods and aims of the research. The second chapter deals with the liability systems from the point of view of ethics, policy, economy and law. It concentrates on problems of their functioning and effectiveness. The main chapter three is fully dedicated to the environmental law liability. It is divided in the subchapters analyzing liability especially from the point of view of the criminal and administrative law. Especially the matter concerning financial penalties for the illegal administrative acts towards legal entities is very topical. Further conclusions are drawn from the comparison of the current legislative in the field of acts against environment. The regulations concerning the water, air pollution, nature and landscape protection, agricultural land protection and other acts are very different, although the trend is aiming evidently to the unification. Nor the Environmental Protection Act plays the unificative role. There is a lack of norms concerning administrative procedure of punishment for such acts. Other up-to-date problem is the quantification of “environmental detriment” – quite a new term in the Czech law order. This term seems to be important not only for the purpose of criminal law liability but as well for the way and extent of restitution or compensation for the loss caused to the environment. The problems are not only with the definition of the term (§ 10 of the Environmental Protection Act) but especially with the procedure of its application as well as with the distinguishing from the civil law damage. In the last chapter there is a brief assessment of the topical problems in the sphere of the environmental law liability. The monography tries to define some general problems resp. questions and possible modes of their solution. The conclusions concern not only the future legislation but also the environmental law as a new scientific and pedagogical discipline in the Czech Republic.
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