An accessible and comprehensive resource, this volume details the structure and logic of EU environmental law and enables readers to quickly gain a thorough understanding of the different areas of EU secondary law pertaining to the protection of the environment.

• I. Primary Law, Institutional and Historical Premises


• 1: The European Union and Its Structure


• 2: Objectives, Principles, and Resources


• 3: Free Movement of Goods and the Room for Member State Action


• 4: Division and Exercise of Competence


• 5: Monitoring the Application of Union Environmental Law and Sanctions


• II. Secondary Law


• 6: Instruments, Approaches, and Trends in EU Secondary Environmental Law


• 7: Crosscutting Issues


• 8: Industrial Emissions


• 9: Air Quality and Noise


• 10: Water


• 11: Climate and Energy


• 12: Waste


• 13: Chemicals


• 14: Genetically Modified Organisms


• 15: Biodiversity

David Langlet is Professor of Ocean Governance Law at the School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg. He was previously a Research Fellow at Christ Church College and the University of Oxford and a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at the Faculty of Law Stockholm University.
Said Mahmoudi is Professor of International Law at Stockholm University. He is also an arbitrator nominated by the Swedish Government according to Article 2 of Annex VII to the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. He formerly served as a diplomat at the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm and was Dean of the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University from 2009 to 2011. His main research areas include law of the sea, international environmental law, EU environmental law, and international organization.