The European Union as an un-muting power? The 2024 Environmental Crime Directive and the voiceless victims
(2023) Council for European Studies — Location: Reykjavik (27.June.2023)
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Piquet, Agathe 
- Abstract
- Part of a panel on the EU and its un-muting power, this communication traces back the legislative journey of the Environmental Crime Directive, from its first version adopted in 2008 to the latest European Commission's proposal in 2021. It reveals the role of the EC as a supranational policy entrepreneur in the field of environmental criminal law and studies how the EC has succeeded in supranationalising the fight against serious damages to the environment since the 2000s, even though this domain was excluded from its prerogatives. This communication then questions what that supranational move has meant for the victims of environmental crime and whether the EU has effectively ‘un-muted’ them by paying attention to the EU environmental crime toolbox and the extent to which it: 1. Complements and alleviates the existing national regulations and instruments to protect the ‘voiceless’ victims of green crime; and 2. Gives voice to those impacted by environmental crime, whether during investigations or criminal proceedings.
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Piquet, A. (2023). The European Union as an un-muting power? The 2024 Environmental Crime Directive and the voiceless victims. Council for European Studies, Reykjavik. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/234685