Suchergebnisse

Zentrale Politikbereiche sind heute "europäisiert" und ohne eine Kenntnis des einschlägigen EU-Rechts nicht mehr zu begreifen. Dies gilt insbesondere für die in diesem Band versammelten "Querschnittpolitiken". Der europäische Einfluss ist dabei mal dominant, mal peripher. Vernachlässigt werden darf er aber in keinem Fall. Das Handbuch nimmt wichtige Politikbereiche der Union in den Blick, die weit über ihr eigentliches Thema auf zentrale weitere Regelungsbereiche ausstrahlen. Hier wird die Durchdringung der nationalen Rechtsordnungen durch das europäische Recht besonders deutlich: Umweltpolitik Transeuropäische Netze Medienpolitik Industrie-, Technologie- und Forschungspolitik Technikrecht und Standardisierung Katastrophenschutz Gesundheitspolitik Kultur- und Bildungspolitik Europäisches Steuerrecht Die 2. Auflage bringt sämtliche Bereiche auf den neuesten Stand. Aufgenommen wird insbesondere ein neues eigenständiges Kapitel über das europäische Datenschutzrecht. Hier hat die Europäische Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (EU) 2016/679 wesentliche Neuerungen gebracht. Auch in den anderen Kapiteln sind sämtliche neuen Sekundärrechtsakte und die wegweisenden Entscheidungen des EuGH und der nationalen Gerichtsbarkeit durchgängig eingearbeitet. Die Autorinnen und Autoren Prof. Dr. Matthias Bäcker, LL.M.; Prof. Dr. Christian Calliess, LL.M. Eur.; Prof. Dr. Martin Führ; Prof. Dr. Bernd Grzeszick, LL.M. (Cambridge); Prof. em. Dr. Michael Kloepfer; Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kühling, LL.M. (Brüssel); RA Dr. André Lippert; Prof. Dr. Tobias Lock; RA Dr. Fabian Schwartz; Prof. Dr. Christian Waldhoff; Prof. Dr. Astrid Wallrabenstein und Prof. Dr. Bernhard W. Wegener, M.A. (Brügge).

Content:
1 Introduction;
2 Cross Border Product Responsibility as a New Challenge;
3 Interface problems on different levels;
3.1 Practical Interfaces: The Monitoring System (Art. 12 (1) WEEE);
3.1.1 Data to be notified when EEE is put on the Market;
3.1.2 Data to be notified when EEE is given back as WEEE;
3.2 Conclusions with Respect to the Different Interfaces;
3.3 Requirements for an appropriate legal and institutional framework;
4 Reciprocal transnational legal obligations;
5 Recommendations concerning the legal and institutional framework;
6 Prerequisites of transnational producer responsibility;
7 Bibliography

Laws have the task of influencing the behaviour of the respective addressees in such a way that the legislator achieves their intended goals. A (new) law would not be required if existing framework conditions were already designed such that regulatory goals could be achieved. In this case actors would already have sufficient incentives to behave in a targeted manner. But this is not usually the case; on the contrary: legislation has the task of addressing "non-conforming" behaviour and of getting actors to participate in the implementation of regulatory goals. This is a demanding task and applies even in cases where compliance can be assumed. However, it is even more difficult if evasive behaviour is to be expected or it is feared that the addressees could develop and implement individual or collusive counter-strategies.
The present contribution and the underlying simulation games on the EIA Amending Directive were funded by the German Federal Environment Agency in the research project "Further development of the EIA instrument – solution proposals and simulation game for the implementation of the EIA Amending Directive 2014/52/EU" (duration 2015 – 2017) within the environmental research plan.
This essay is split into two parts. The first part primarily regards the experience from the simulation game on the EIA Amending Directive, which was aligned with the new version of the German Environmental Impact Assessment Act (EIAA). The second part of the essay, which will be published in the next issue of the elni Review, deals with experiences from other simulation games and, based on this, describes more comprehensively the possibilities and limits of simulation games for the purpose of regulatory impact assessment.

This report is provided in the scope of the project "Advancing REACH", funded by the research plan of the German Ministry for the Environment. The project aims to develop options to improve the (implementation of) the REACH regulation by analysing various REACH processes and related issues, including substitution, sustainable chemistry, articles, cost-benefit analyses, socio-economic analyses and financing ECHA. In October 2020, the European Commission launched the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability that calls to counter emerging risk with preventive action. Against this backdrop, the report aims to place this strategy in the context of the debate on the precautionary principle in the EU and to derive policy options to advance REACH. The report assesses the general coverage of emerging risk under REACH. To the extent that emerging risk falls into the scope of REACH, it assesses in how far the regulation operationalises the concept of emerging risk with legal instruments and, if relevant, evaluates the practical implementation of such instruments. Based on the findings, it develops policy options responding to the identified deficits in order to advance REACH. The aim of the policy options is to strengthen control of emerging risk under REACH. They are addressing deficits in the provisions of REACH de lege lata. These deficits impede the willingness of actors in industry and authorities and limit them of the framework conditions required to tackle emerging risk. The options at least partially address the identified shortcomings. An overall perspective shows that the foreseeable benefits of the options would outweigh the identified disadvantages.