Italy bill would criminalize environmental damage / JURIST, 25 April 2007
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/04/italy-bill-would-criminalize.php
Joshua Pantesco
"The Italian government adopted a draft law Tuesday that would criminalise a wide range of environmentally-unsound activities, including damage to environmental resources, polluting, illegal dumping, and causing environmental catastrophes. Proposed sentencing guidelines authorize up to 10 years in jail for the most serious crime, causing environmental catastrophes, and authorize fines ranging from 4,000 to 20,000 Euros for polluting to 30,000 to 250,000 Euros for causing environmental catastrophes. The draft bill, which still must be approved by the full Italian parliament, would bring Italy in line with other European Union countries that have already criminalised environmental crimes, such as Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Denmark."