He is decades of strengthening European integration the author of a number of leading textbooks on and independence, the giving of notice under topics such as contaminated land, nuclear law article 50 of the Treaty on European Union and environmental impact assessment, and was forces the UK government and the European for many years the author and editor-in-chief of Union to address the complex ch [...] It will also Environmental Law in the consider the question of future relations between the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United Kingdom wider international community, in terms of any limits on the United Kingdom’s autonomy to set To fully understand the impact of EU its own environmental standards. [...] The paper will focus on a limited number of areas that have been selected to provide → Emissions Standards an overall perspective on the different areas of EU Much of the legislation of the European Union law that have shaped the law on environmental is concerned with standards for emissions, protection in the United Kingdom, and that will whether from stationary installations, provide the context [...] In some cases, the courts have reacted against Another important point is that the EIA regime this by stressing that litigants should not adopt has become one of the best illustrations in the an unduly legalistic approach to the requirements environmental sphere of how the UK courts of the directive and domestic regulations, which have embraced EU law as an integral part of the should be interpret [...] As with EIA, the led to the creation of environmental structures EU law on the protection of habitats has in recent in member states, having conferred a degree of years proved a fertile ground for legal challenges oversight on implementation and application to controversial projects, and has sometimes been of the law to the European Commission and, the subject of judicial comment that it should no
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