Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- General editors preface -- Contributors -- Table of treaties -- Table of legislation -- Austria -- Federal legislation -- State legislation -- Belgium -- England -- Finland -- France -- Germany -- Federal legislation -- State legislation -- Greece -- Ireland -- Italy -- The Netherlands -- Portugal -- Scotland -- Spain -- Sweden -- Abbreviations -- Part I. Environmental Liability in Europe -- 1 International and supranational systems of environmental liability in Europe -- I. General systems of environmental liability -- II. Sector-specific international conventions -- 2 Some observations on the law applicable to transfrontier environmental damage -- I. The law applicable to international non-contractual torts or delicts: the general rule in national codifications of private international law -- II. The law applicable to international non-contractual torts or delicts: the general rule in the 8216;Regulation Rome II of the European Community -- III. Archetypes of 8216;bilocal torts: product liability and liability for environmental damage -- IV. The increasing number of transfrontier environmental incidents -- V. Specific statutory solutions for transfrontier environmental damage in national private international laws -- VI. The rules on the law applicable to environmental damage in the 8216;Regulation Rome II -- VII. Summary -- Part II. The Case Studies -- 3 The Questionnaire -- I. Goal of the Questionnaire -- II. Text of the Questionnaire -- Part A. Scope of Liable Persons -- Case 1 Industrial plant -- Case 2 Sudden incident -- Case 3 Dangerous substances -- Case 4 Genetically modified organisms -- Case 5 Micro-organisms -- Case 6 Waste disposal site -- Case 7 Producer of waste -- Case 8 Nuclear power plant -- Case 9 The harmless substance -- Case 10 Historic pollution -- Part B. Causation and Multiple Tortfeasors -- Case 11 Cancer from pollution -- Case 12 Increase in leukaemia rate -- Case 13 The dying forest -- Case 14 Fish kill -- Part C. Remedies and Legal Standing -- Case 15 Contaminated land -- Case 16 The polluted river -- Case 17 The oil spill -- Case 18 Contaminated drinking water -- Part III. Comparison, Summary and Conclusions -- 4 Comparison -- I. Scope of liable persons -- II. Causation and multiple tortfeasors (Cases 1114) -- III. Remedies and legal standing -- 5 Summary and conclusions -- I. International conventions -- II. The 2004 EC Environmental Liability Directive -- III. National tort law -- Bibliography -- General bibliography -- Austria -- Belgium -- England -- Finland -- France -- Germany -- Greece -- Ireland -- Italy -- The Netherlands -- Portugal -- Scotland -- Spain -- Sweden -- Index
Summary
A comprehensive analysis of environmental liability law in Europe
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 649-672) and index
