Chapters

• Introduction to The Environmental Liability Directive
• Topics
• Purpose and aims
• Key provisions: liability
• Annex III (1/2)
• Annex III (2/2)
• Enforcement
• Land damage threshold
• Water damage threshold
• Biodiversity damage threshold (1/2)
• Biodiversity damage threshold (2/2)
• Remediation of land damage
• Remediation of water and biodiversity damage
• Exclusions
• Defences
• Public participation
• Transposition
• Differences between Member States
• Joint and several/proportional liability
• Extension of biodiversity damage to nationally and/or regionally protected sites
• Introduction of mandatory financial security for liabilities under the ELD
• Exemption of spreading sewage sludge from waste management activities in annex III
• Examples of other differences between MS
• Implementation
• Relationship with MS law
• Reports and refit
• 14 April 2016
• Report – overall conclusions
• Report – main challenges
• Report – proposals
• Multi-annual work programme
• MAWP 2017 – 2020 (continued)
• Additional ongoing study
• Amendments to the ELD
• Amendments to article 18 (continued)
• European Parliament Resolution
• CJEU cases
• Case C-534/13, 2015
• Case C-129/16, 2017
• Case C‑529/15, 2017
• Case C-683/16, 2018
• Case C-297/19, 2020
• Naturschutzbund Deutschland (continued)
• Key points
• Conclusions
• Way forward