Poachers, Smugglers, Polluters and Other Environmental Criminals. Remarks on a Recent Publication on the Regulation of Environmental Criminality Under International and EU Law

The review examines a recent publication on the International and EU law regimes governing environmental criminality. Following the structure of the book, the review accounts for both regimes, first by examining the main multilateral environmental agreements (“MEAs”) accounted for in the first part of the publication, i.e. the Cites, Basel, and Marpol Conventions, then moving onto the relevant pieces of legislation under EU law, i.e. the Environmental Crime Directive and the Pollution from Ships Directive, only to acknowledge, consistenly with the authors of the publication under review, the need for clearer and more stringent criminal provisions, coupled with enhanced forms of international cooperation, involving States, agencies, and international organizations alike.