Title: Environmental liability: the issues and dangers

Authors: Stephen Tromans

Addresses: Simmons & Simmons, 14 Dominion Street, London, EC2M 2RJ, UK

Abstract: There appears to be a growing demand for a coherent system of liability for environmental damage at Community level. This paper tracks the thinking of the Community on this issue and considers whether any such system is justifiable, together with some of the main substantive problems in designing such a system. The difficult issues of |damage from the past| and retrospective liability are also addressed.

Keywords: European Community; law; environmental damage; international conventions; environmental liability; polluter pays principle; retrospective liability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.1995.028373

International Journal of Environment and Pollution, 1995 Vol.5 No.2/3, pp.180 - 193

Published online: 17 Sep 2009 *

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