Criminal liability in environmental protection

75 Abstract Criminal liability in environmental protection Presented dissertation deals with a very current topic, which is environmental protection through the criminal law standards. It mostly deals with criminal environmental protection instruments in the Czech Republic and puts them into the international and European context. It describes the conditions of a criminal liability with an emphasis on the criminal liability of the legal persons, a new element in Czech law. A big part of this dissertation is dedicated to the individual environmental crimes, which can be found in the criminal code in a part VIII or in another parts within the special part. Two chapters are dedicated to analysis of the two crimes in detail - Damage and threats of the environment (including its negligent forms) and Animal abuse including the historical development of it. The aim of this dissertation is an analysis of actual and efficient legal regulation