This study addresses the compatibility of the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) with obligations under world trade law as administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO). In particular we look at the instruments of German domestic and international energy policy, analysing the relationship between those instruments, the PPP and WTO rules. The main f...
To an increasing degree the permissibility of mining projects is coming under the purview of nature conservation law. This field of law owes its current prominence largely to the amended Federal Nature Conservation Law and the recurrent effects of the communal habitat protection guidelines on mining operations. This has had momentous consequences f...
