ASPECTS REGARDING THE 
CONTRAVENTIONAL LIABILITY 
AND THE CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES Cover Image

ASPECTS REGARDING THE CONTRAVENTIONAL LIABILITY AND THE CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES
ASPECTS REGARDING THE CONTRAVENTIONAL LIABILITY AND THE CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGES

Author(s): Diana DEACONU-DASCĂLU
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Editura Hamangiu S.R.L.
Keywords: contravention; ecological damage; liability; ecological crime; criminal responsibility

Summary/Abstract: Legal liability for environmental protection has three main forms: civil liability, contraventional liability and criminal liability for environmental damage. This article is dedicated to the overall presentation of two of the three forms of liability meant to punish human behaviors that attract illegal environmental damage, respectively the contraventional liability and the criminal liability for environmental damage.In the lines below, we have examined in the context of the contraventional or administrative liability: the notion of ecological contravention, the constituent elements of liability offenses, the concept of sanction and limitation of liability offenses, and in the context of criminal liability: the notion of ecological crime and the constituent elements of criminal liability for environmental damage.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: XII
  • Page Range: 61-70
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English
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