EU environmental law forms the foundation of approximately 80% of all national environmental regulations. At the same time, national authorities are struggling with significant difficulties in enforcing EU environmental law, one reason being that violations of environmental law rarely involve infringements of subjective rights. Therefore, in the environmental sector, the EU institutions need to play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with EU law by using or providing supranational compliance assurance instruments.
Continue reading “Practitioner Networks complementing the Compliance Assurance Toolkit in EU environmental law”Author: Kaja Rothfuß
Kaja Rothfuß obtained her doctorate at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and works as an associate lawyer for public law with a focus on environmental law, planning law, climate protection law and renewable energies at Menold Bezler Rechtsanwälte in Stuttgart. She is also a lecturer in public construction law at DHBW Stuttgart.