Environmental Law and Policy - HSSC1

• Title: Environmental Law and Policy
• Guaranteed by: International Office (22-ZO)
• Faculty: Faculty of Law
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/0, Ex [HT]
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. JUDr. Milan Damohorský, DrSc.
• Teacher(s): prof. JUDr. Milan Damohorský, DrSc.; JUDr. Michal Sobotka, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Annotation:
The course will give to the students the fundamental information and knowledge of international, European and Czech regulation of protection of the environment and its parts and components.

Last update: Marešová Svatava, Ing. (07.08.2023)

Czech

The course provides a comprehensive overview of the legal regulation of environmental protection at the EU and Czech national levels. It starts with a description of the state of the environment and explanation of the concept of environmental policy. It further continues with general issues such as the relationship between the EU law and national laws of Member States and the role of law as a tool of environmental policy. It pays attention to certain cross-cutting issues (such as liability in environmental protection, institutional safeguards, public participation, role of courts) before dealing with specific topics such as land-use planning, environmental impact assessment, protection of individual components of the environment (air, water, land, forests, nature) and regulation of specific sources of endangerment of the environment and human health (waste, industrial accidents). The final exam is composed of a written test based on the knowledge transmitted during the course and a group presentation (2-4 students from at least two different countries) on a topic chosen from a list proposed by lecturers.

Last update: Chromá Marta, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (24.10.2019)

Requirements to the exam

Exam:

Written test and group oral presentations on the selected topic (groups from various Erasmus universities) – comparison with the PPP

 

Means of communication:

YouTube and MS Teams and/or Moodle

Last update: Marešová Svatava, Ing. (04.01.2023)

Syllabus

Outline of the Course

1. The state of the environment (global, European and national level). International, Europeanand Czech environmental policy Environmental law (system, principles, instruments), transposition and implementation of international and EU environmental law, institutional safeguards for environmental protection
2. Access to environmental information, public participation in environmental decision-making. Ownership and environmental protection. Role of the justice (courts) in the protection of environment
3. Main horizontal legislation I: Land-use planning
4. Main horizontal legislation II: EIA, IPPC
5. The liability system of environmental protection
6. Air pollution regulation. Earth’s climate system protection
7. Water resources protection
8. Biodiversity and nature protection  
9. Agriculture land and forest protection
10. Regulation of sources of endangerment: Waste

Course Goals:

The goal of the course is to give to the students general understanding of the environmental problems in their mutual consequences and of the role of the environmental law.

Reading List

DAMOHORSKÝ, M.: Czech Environmental Law, 2nd edition, Charles University, Prague, 2006
KISS, A. - SHELTON, D.: Manual of European Environmental Law, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997
KRÄMER, L.: European Environmental Law, Sweet and Maxwell, 6th Edition, 2007
KRÄMER, L.: Casebook on European Environmental Law, Hart, 2002
SCHEUER, S. (ed.): EC Environmental Policy Handbook - A critical Analysis of EU Environmental Legislation, EEB, 2005
State Environmental Policy (2002-2010), Ministry of the Environment
Report of the Environment of the Czech republic 2007

Last update: Marešová Svatava, Ing. (07.08.2023)