Environment protection in the legal system of Albania: The current situation in Albania on combating environmental crimes and the new reform directions
Journal Title: Academicus - International Scientific Journal - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 14
Abstract
The scope of this article is twofold, on one hand; it makes an analysis of the current situation of the environment protection through the criminal law in the Albania, by proving a legal landscape on the current criminal conducts as are foreseen by the Criminal Code of Albania. It starts with an introduction which aims to highlight the status play of the increased attention that is being shown for the environmental protection in the global arena. Then it makes an assessment on the definition of the environmental harm, and the technical-legal approaches utilised for the protection of the environment. After that, this article makes a description of the legal concept of environment in Albania and analyses the existing criminal offences as they are foreseen by the Criminal Code.On the other hand, the article makes a preliminary assessment of the new coming reform on the environmental crime in Albania, by trying to identify the problematic issues and their address by the draft-law.The conclusions reached at the end shows the evolution of the concept of environment and its protection, welcomes the new reform by noting the need of the judicial authorities to be trained in order to be fully implemented.
Authors and Affiliations
PhD Candidate Shkëlzen Selimi, Xhezair Zaganjori
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP112453
- DOI 10.7336/academicus.2016.14.02
- Views 179
- Downloads 0
Workplace Bullying Scale: The Study of Validity and Reliability
The aim of this research is to adapt the Workplace Bullying Scale (Tınaz, Gök & Karatuna, 2013) to Albanian language and to examine its psychometric properties. The research was conducted on 386 person from different...
Education Factor and Human Resources Development - Albania Case
The article gives a general view of the actual situation and the potential importance that the education factor plays in the formation and development of human resources in Albania, based on the Albanian education system...
Antonio Gramsci’s role in Marxian thought and the contribution made to international relations by those using his ideas
Some of the most promising post-Cold War developments in Marxian thought have been stimulated by problems facing Marxists in Western Europe, to that extent they all seem to lay bare, intentionally or otherwise, the lacki...
The culture of referendum in Albania: Technical and theoritecal reflections on the abrogative referendum
The aim of this paper is to analyse the Albanian constitutional and legal framework on referenda, in general, focusing special attention to the abrogative referenda of a law or part thereof. Given the absence of any conc...
The Specious Denials of Access to Administrative Documents: Practical Problems in the Transparency Era with the Case of Italian Military Court of Verona
The contribution examines the institution of the right of access to administrative documents between coarse and pretentious denials in the Italian public administration and particularly the case of the reiterated illegit...