The Court was asked whether for the purposes of the Environmental Liability Directive (EU Directive 2004/35/EC), ‘environmental damage’ includes the prevention or deceleration of recovery from an existing, already-damaged environmental state; or whether it is restricted to a deterioration from an existing state.
Hickinbottom J
[2015] EWHC 3578 (Admin)
Bailii
Directive 2004/35/EC
England and Wales
Planning, European, Environment
Updated: 08 January 2022; Ref: scu.557153