Environmental liability under scrutiny: the margins of applying the EU “polluter pays” principle against the owners of the polluted land who did not contribute to the pollution

Varvastian, Samvel 2015. Environmental liability under scrutiny: the margins of applying the EU “polluter pays” principle against the owners of the polluted land who did not contribute to the pollution. Environmental Law Review 17 (4) , pp. 270-276. 10.1177/1461452915598430

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Abstract

The origins of the case Fipa Group and Others date back to the period from the 1960s–1980s, when two companies belonging to the industrial group Montedison SpA (now Edison SpA), Farmoplant SpA and Cersam Srl, operated an industrial site for the manufacture of insecticides and herbicides in a municipality of the Province of Massa Carrara in Tuscany, Italy.1 As a result of these industrial activities, massive contamination of the surrounding land by various chemical substances, including dichloroethane and ammonia, occurred.2 In 1995, the land was partly decontaminated; however, the decontamination proved to be inadequate. In 1998 the area was proclaimed a ‘site of national interest’ under Italian law for the purposes of its rehabilitation.3

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General) K Law > KZ Law of Nations
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	1461-4529
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	18 May 2023
Last Modified:	14 Jul 2023 05:54
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/159624

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