Aoife Shields, a solicitor in our Enviromental Law Team, spoke at Law and the Environment 2009. The 7th Annual Conference for Environmental Professionals, held at UCC.
Aoife spoke on 'Critical Analysis of the Land Damage Provisions of the Environmental Liability Directive'. She discussed the fact that the Environmental Liability Directive aims to harmonise throughout the EU, rules on liability for environmental damage to include damage to land, water, protected species and natural habitat. She considered the impact of the Directive's land damage provisions on regulating contaminated land in Ireland. By way of introduction, Aoife started with a brief overview of the Directive. The main body of her talk analysed the legal and operational elements of its land damage provisions. She discussed some issues and came to a number of conclusions on the impact of these provisions for Ireland. Reference is also made throughout to the recently adopted Environmental Liability Regulations, which purports to transpose the Directive in Ireland.
