ENVIRONMENTAL LAWFORCE

The ENVIRONMENTAL LAWFORCE DATABASE is an important output from the research project "Environmental Law Enforcement: a Comparison of Practice in the Criminal and the Administrative Tracks" (March 2007 - March 2011) financed by the Institute for Encouraging Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT). More information on the research project can be found elsewhere on this website... With respect to the criminal sanctioning track the database documents breaches of the environmental pollution law that applied in the Flemish Region (Belgium). The data collection focused on the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal in Gent. This jurisdiction included seven courts of first instance: Brugge, Dendermonde, Gent, Ieper, Kortrijk, Oudenaarde and Veurne. All judgments regarding environmental offences from 2003, 2004, 2004 and 2006 as well as the appeal judgments from 2003 up to 2007 are included in the dataset. Moreover, the dataset also includes information on the pre-court decisions,..