KRIVIČNOPRAVNA ZAŠTITA ŽIVOTNE SREDINE REPUBLIKE SRPSKE U SVJETLU NOVE DIREKTIVE EU IZ 2024. GODINE
Protection of the Environment Through Criminal Law in the Republika Srpska in Light of the New 2024 EU Directive

Summary/Abstract: The system of environmental criminal offenses in the Criminal Code of the Republika Srpska provides for several criminal offenses against the environment, in their basic or qualified forms, together with penalties for their perpetrators. Given the need for effective and comprehensive protection of the environment through criminal law either as a whole or of its individual elements, it is necessary to constantly update the existing statutory solutions in order to improve them, both from the perspective of the needs of a contemporary crime suppression policy and, even more so, because of the emergence of new and different forms of harm to or endangerment of the environment. This is also reinforced by the need to harmonize national criminal-law systems with relevant international standards. In this paper, the author analyzes the new solutions contained in the 2024 European Union Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law from the perspective of their implementation in the criminal legislation of the Republika Srpska.

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