Czech and European Environmental Law and Policy - HSSC1

• Title: Czech and European Environmental Law and Policy
• Guaranteed by: International Office (22-ZO)
• Faculty: Faculty of Law
• Actual: from 2013 to 2018
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/0, Ex [HT]
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. JUDr. Milan Damohorský, DrSc.; JUDr. Michal Sobotka, Ph.D.; JUDr. Karolina Žákovská, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. JUDr. Milan Damohorský, DrSc.; JUDr. Michal Sobotka, Ph.D.; JUDr. Karolina Žákovská, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Marta Chromá, Ph.D. (24.10.2019)

The course provides information about the development of the Czech and European environmental policy and law and about their current status. The course deals with legal, economic and institutional instruments of environmental protection in the Czech Republic and EU. It covers both sectoral and horizontal environmental legislation and the background of public administration of the environmental protection. The course also provides general information about the process of transposition and implementation of European environmental law in member states, especially on the example of the Czech Republic. Attention is paid also to international standards of environmental protection as to basis for European and national legal action.

Syllabus

Last update: Ing. Svatava Marešová (04.01.2023)

Outline of the Course

1. The state of the environment on global, European and national level. International, European and Czech environmental policy.
2. Environmental law as a key instrument of Environmental policy (system, instruments). Institutional safeguards for environmental protection.
3. European and national environmental law - transposition and implementation.
4. The liability system of environmental protection.
5. Access to environmental information, public participation in environmental decision-making.
6. Main horizontal legislation I: EIA, IPPC.
7. Main horizontal legislation II: Land-use planning.
8. Air pollution regulation.
9. Water resources protection
10. Land and Forest Protection.
11. Biodiversity and Nature protection.
12. Regulation of sources of endangerment I: Waste.
13. Regulation of sources of endangerment II: Chemicals.
14. Regulation of sources of endangerment III: Protection against accidental harm. Noise regulation.
15. Ownership and Environmental protection. Land and Agricultural Law & Environment.
16. Role of the justice (courts) in the protection of environment.

Reading List

DAMOHORSKÝ, M.: Czech Environmental Law, 2nd edition, Charles University, Prague, 2006
KISS, A. - SHELTON, D.: Manual of European Environmental Law, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997
KRÄMER, L.: European Environmental Law, Sweet and Maxwell, 6th Edition, 2007
KRÄMER, L.: Casebook on European Environmental Law, Hart, 2002
SCHEUER, S. (ed.): EC Environmental Policy Handbook - A critical Analysis of EU Environmental Legislation, EEB, 2005
State Environmental Policy (2002-2010), Ministry of the Environment
Report of the Environment of the Czech republic 2007