The Evolution Research Of EU Environmental Criminal Law Regulation

It has become the general consensus of the EU countries to use of criminal law protection of theenvironment. They have gone through twists and turns and a long road and then went to utilize thepenalty means to punish environmental crimes. The idea of this article starts from the basic problems ofthe European Union environmental criminal law, in view of the concept of environmental criminal lawin the EU Context analysis of the connotation of the European Union environmental criminal law, andthen comb the course of development of European environmental criminal law context, and reveal itscharacteristics to predict the trend. After then it discusses specific issues of EU environmental criminallaw in both the Legislative and Judicial. Finally it makes an overview of the advanced nature of the EUenvironmental criminal regulatory system and its Implications for China. The focus is the evolution ofthe EU Environmental Crime Criminal Regulation and direction. It makes an introduction and reviewabout the evolution as the time sequence, and then analyzes the characteristics of the evolution.Finally there is an enlightenment derived from the above analysis the direction of the developmentof criminal legislation in China’s environmental and the improvement of every legal aspects. To try toresolve three issues: the first is the evolution of EU environmental criminal regulatory systemcharacteristics; the second is the guiding philosophy of our environmental criminal legislation; thethird is legislation revelation of China’s environmental criminal law and policy from above all.