Beyond Minimum Harmonisation
Gold-Plating and Green-Plating of European Environmental Law

Explains the functioning of shared competences in environmental protection by focusing on member states' interaction with the EU legal framework.

Lorenzo Squintani (Author)

9781108481007, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 May 2019

296 pages, 2 b/w illus. 2 tables
23.5 x 15.5 x 2 cm, 0.55 kg

This book explains the functioning of shared competences in environmental protection by focusing on member states' interaction with the EU framework. By studying this interaction, Squintani reveals room for improving the level of environmental protection, legal certainty, and efficiency of the system for environmental protection envisaged under the EU Treaties. Accordingly, this book makes a contribution to EU environmental law and policy, but also should be of interest to constitutional lawyers more generally and to scholars working in any field of EU policy and law in which minimum harmonisation is used. Thanks to its focus and clear, accessible prose, this book is also valuable additional reading material for environmental law courses, and to those involved in decision-making in the EU.

Introduction: minimum harmonisation in European environmental law
1. Gold-plating: a misleading overarching concept
2. Green-plating and environmental protection
3. Green-plating and legal certainty
4. Green-plating and economic development
Conclusions: proceduralising member states' choice regarding green-plating.

Subject Areas: Environment law [LNKJ], Environment, transport & planning law [LNK], International environmental law [LBBP], International economic & trade law [LBBM], Law [L]