{"id":8460,"date":"2022-09-18T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T10:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developmentsites.net\/endecocide\/?page_id=8460"},"modified":"2023-11-17T12:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:40:02","slug":"european-crime-directive-revision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/fr\/european-crime-directive-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"European Crime Directive Revision &#8211; Agreement reached!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developmentsites.net\/endecocide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/4026-2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/4026-2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/4026-2.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The European Crime Directive, 2008 directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law is currently being revised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/RegData\/etudes\/BRIE\/2022\/733555\/EPRS_BRI(2022)733555_EN.pdf\">European Parliament Briefing note on Revision of Directive 2008\/99\/EC &#8211; Protection of the environment through criminal law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This presents an opportunity to add ecocide as a new criminal offense. This would create an enforceable deterrent to the most severe and either widespread or long-term harms to nature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Significant moment for the campaign!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the 16th November 2023 the European Union added a sanction for crimes comparable to ecocide into the EU Environmental Crime Directive:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20230929IPR06108\/environmental-crimes-deal-on-new-offences-and-reinforced-sanctions\">https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20230929IPR06108\/environmental-crimes-deal-on-new-offences-and-reinforced-sanctions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopecocide.earth\/breaking-news-2023\/agreement-reached-eu-to-criminalise-severe-environmental-harms-comparable-to-ecocide\">https:\/\/www.stopecocide.earth\/breaking-news-2023\/agreement-reached-eu-to-criminalise-severe-environmental-harms-comparable-to-ecocide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the result of over 10 years of campaigning by a huge number of people from different organisations and institutions and is an incredible step forward towards an international crime of ecocide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Crime Directive, 2008 directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law is currently being revised. European Parliament Briefing note on Revision of Directive 2008\/99\/EC &#8211; Protection of the environment through criminal law This presents an opportunity to add ecocide as a new criminal offense. This would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8460"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8899,"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8460\/revisions\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}