Activities of Andrey SLABAKOV related to 2021/0422(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of the environment through criminal law and replacing Directive 2008/99/EC
Amendments (7)
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) Sanctions for the offences should be effective, dissuasive and proportionate. To this end, minimum levels for the maximum term of imprisonment should be set for natural persons. Accessory sanctions are often seen as being more effective than financial sanctions especially for legal persons. Additional sanctions or measures should be therefore available in criminal proceedings, in accordance with national law. These should include the obligation to reinstate the environment, exclusion from access to public funding, including tender procedures, grants and concessions and withdrawal of permits and authorisations. This is without prejudice to the discretion of judges or courts in criminal proceedings to impose appropriate sanctions in the individual cases.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) To ensure a coherent approach to combating environmental offences, Member States shouldmay adopt, publish and periodically review a national strategy on combating environmental crime, establishing objectives, priorities and corresponding measures and resources needed.
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) To effectively tackle the criminal offences referred to in this Directive, it is necessary that competent authorities in the Member States collect accurate, consistent and comparable data on the scale of and trends in environmental offences and the efforts to combat them and their results. These data should be used for preparing statistics to serve the operational and strategic planning of enforcement activities as well as for providing information to citizens. Member States should collect and report to the Commission relevant statistical data on environmental offences. In cases where Member State do no regularly submit the relevant data, the Commission shall work together with the Member State to identify deficiencies in its data collection and analysis procedures and methods, and offer support for addressing said deficiencies, such as additional training, technical and expert support. The Commission should regularly assess and publish the results based on the data transmitted by the Member States.
Amendment 160 #
This Directive establishes minimum rules concerning the definition of criminal offences and sanctions in order to protect the environment more effectively and to support Member States in preventing and combatting environmental crime.
Amendment 360 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. By [OP – please insert the date – within onetwo years after the entry into force of this Directive], Member States shallmay establish, publish and implement a national strategy on combating environmental criminal offences which as a minimum shallould address the following:
Amendment 362 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 2
Article 20 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shallmay take actions to ensure that the strategy is reviewed and updated at regular intervals no longer than 5 ye, or when deemed necessarsy, on a risk- analysis- based-approach, in order to take account of relevant developments and trends and related threats regarding environmental crime.