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Research Seminar: Unmute the environment: fighting environmental crime at the EU level

May 16, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Agathe Piquet (Chargée de recherche F.R.S.-FNRS, Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles)   

Discussion: Chloé Brière (Université libre de Bruxelles) & Amandine Orsini (Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) 

 

 

Abstract: While serious damages to the environment are not new, environmental crime as a distinct form of crime is recent. Considering that the national regulatory and enforcement activities were not sufficient to effectively fight environmental crime, the European Union (EU) has adopted since the 2000s a wide range of instruments to this end, including the 2008 Environmental Crime Directive. Recent evaluations have shed light on the mitigated results of this directive and led in 2021 the European Commission to propose its replacement. Yet, while the EU has positioned itself as the champion of the protection of the environment and of the voiceless, little is known about its concrete capacity to un-mute the victims of green crime. The communication will explore this question by analysing the current revision process of the 2008 Directive.

 

Agathe Piquet is a FNRS Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies, Université Saint-Louis-Bruxelles. Her current research compares the cooperation between law enforcement and NGOs in the regulation of environmental crime in different member states of the EU. She was previously a postdoc at Queen Mary University of London and a member of the NEXTEUK project about the future relationship between the EU and the UK, including the impact of Brexit on public policies. Her research interests are the transformations of internal security in Europe at the crossroads with EU studies and public policies.

 

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Date:
May 16, 2023
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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EUNMUTE

Venue

P30 (Préfecture) 119 rue du marais – Bruxelles