European Environmental Law discusses a number of questions arising in connection with the relationship between European law and national environmental law, such as the legal basis of European environmental law, its transposition and implementation in the national legal orders, the relationship between environmental law and the internal market. The final chapter surveys the most important EC legislation on the environment. Audience: Lawyers interested in the European dimension of environmental law.

Hero worship is culturally hardwired into our psyche and cultivated in our early development by our experience of our parents a daddy and mommy who are all powerful, all beautiful, all everything. Our eventual awakening to their frailty only intensifies our searches elsewhere for other heroes both in private and public life. And so it is, too, in our intellectual life: St Sigmund, St Karl, St Jurgen et cetera Chacun a son Saint For many, history is still a story of kings, and prime ministers, and generals, and statesmen (and stateswomen). And so it is, too, in our little puddle of European...