"Environmental law: a comprehensive yet rather ineffective legal framework" (J-P. Rivaud)

News Tank Transitions - Paris - Interview #440878 - Published on 12/05/26 at 17:30
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"In France, environmental law currently covers almost 2,000 offences. It's a monstrous maze for French magistrates, but the corpus is not very powerful. There are no offences in the penal Code", Jean-Philippe Rivaud, vice-president of the network of European environmental prosecutors, told News Tank on 12/05/2026.

Jean-Philippe Rivaud, who is...

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