Environmental Law Lecture series
Welcome to the Environmental Law Lecture series! In this series, environmental law scholars will provide important insights into how EU environmental law helps to achieve a high level of environmental protection in the European Union and beyond.
Where Eagles Dare: How much room for EU Member States under the environmental guarantee (Article 193 TFEU)?
The “environmental guarantee” provided in Article 193 TFEU enables EU Member States to maintain or introduce “more stringent protective measures” beyond environmental protective measures adopted under Article 192 TFEU. This lecture discusses the interpretation of the environmental guarantee by the CJEU and its potential for providing effective protection of the objectives of EU environmental policy. The analysis of case law shows that the development of EU environmental law as a coherent body of law in its own right is preserved by the CJEU. However, this implies that some constraints are put on the ability of EU Member States to act more protectively than EU environmental law, which seems to align with the intention of the drafters of the environmental guarantee, as introduced by the European Single Act.
Speaker: Leonie Reins
She is a Professor of Public Law and Sustainability at Erasmus School of Law. Prior to joining ESL she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT) at Tilburg University. She obtained her FWO-financed PhD on "the coherent regulation on energy and environment - using shale gas as a case
study" from KU Leuven, where she subsequently also worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher. In addition Leonie worked as Legal Advisor at a Brussels-based environmental law and policy consultancy, where she was involved in projects on environmental, energy and climate change law and policy. Leonie holds and LL.M. in International,
European and Comparative Energy and Environmental Law .
Lecture Series
This lecture is part of a series that runs from 2023 to 2024, providing students and scholars with core insights into the current state of EU environmental law and how it can be improved to achieve greater environmental protection. All lectures will be recorded and made accessible through YouTube, and the series is freely accessible to all.
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This GreenDeal-Net lecture serie is hosted by MCEL, METRO and organised in cooperation with GLaw-Net and GreenDeal-NET. Maastricht University students will be eligible for certificates of attendance (see more information under the registration link).