The Impact of EC Environmental Law in the United Kingdom

Dr Jane Holder is Co-Director at the Centre for the Law of the European Union at University College London.

Part 1 - current issues: recent developments in EU Environmental Law; the enforcement of EC Environmental Law against member States; community rights in Environmental Law - rhetoric or reality; the state of implementation - the impact of European Community Law on Northern Ireland. Part 2 - principles of Environmental Law in the UK - the impact of subsidiarity; the principle of proportionality in Environmental Law; safe science? - the precautionary principle in environmental law. Part 3 - Regulation in practice - pollution control: testing the extended gatekeeper: the law, practice and politics of implementing the drinking water directive in the UK; the impact of EC Environmental Law on law and practice relating to marine and coastal waters; the impact of law on noise in the UK. Part 4 - Regulation in practice - nature conservation: nature Conservation; Has the UK Implemented the Habitats Directive?. Part 5 - regulation in practice - land use: the impact of EC environmental law in the UK; environmental impact assessment - has it had an impact?; from environmental impact assessment to strategic environmental assessment - sustainability and decision - making. Part 6 - policy conflicts: free movement of goods and environmental law; crated calves and crazy cows - live animals and free movement of goods law; from Rio to Inverness - envirnonment and development in the highlands and islands "Objective 1" - enterprize areas.