Today, the Council formally adopted a directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law. The law will improve the investigation and prosecution of environmental crime offences. The ...

One year after the adoption of the updated European Directive on Environmental Crime, Euronews takes stock with Lieutenant Colonel Ondrej Koporec, Slovakian environmental investigator and Chair of the ...

Assets worth over $64 million were seized and 94 people arrested as part of a multinational law enforcement operation targeting environmental crime in the Amazon Basin. The crackdown, coordinated by ...

This press release was updated on 7 December 2023 to include the final compromise text. The Council presidency and European Parliament negotiators today reached a provisional agreement on a proposed ...

European leaders have issued an urgent rallying cry for international action to tackle environmental crime – a deeply disturbing and growing multi-billion-dollar industry which bankrolls criminal ...