Liability for environmental damages

Thesis title Liability for environmental damages Abstract This thesis deals with the position of the institute of liability for environmental damages in the Czech legal order. This is a relatively complex issue in the field of environmental law, which has been constantly evolving. The environment extends beyond national borders, therefore legislation of the environmental protection, including liability for environmental damages, is strongly influenced by international law and, in particular, European law. Liability for environmental damages is one type of the liability for environmental losses and together with liability for public torts (crimes and contraventions) it forms the concept of legal environmental liability. The aim of this work is to analyse the institute of liability for environmental damages in detail and to analyse its individual aspects in a comprehensive way. Because of the fragmentation of legislation and different views of individual acts on the concept of environmental damages, this thesis focuses on the analysis of these views and explanation of the acts' purposes. The most important and in practice the only legislation applied in this area is the system of imposing preventive and remedial measures in the acts regulating individual environmental components and sources of environmental..