| Tittel: | Strafudmåling i miljøstraffesager i Danmark | | Ansvar: | Gorm Toftegaard Nielsen | | Forfatter: | Toftegaard Nielsen, Gorm  | | Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk | | Signatur: | Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab | | Utgitt: | København : De nordiske kriminalistforeninger, 2013 | | Omfang: | S. 195-212 | | Serie: | Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab ; 2/2013 | | Innhold: | Denmark adopted its first Law on the protection of the environment, with its own rule on sentencing, in 1973. This rule has since been developed through a num-ber of amendments to the Law, with the aim of imposing stricter punishment. Prosecutions are typically brought against commercial undertakings, and these have concerned heavier fines either by reference to the harm done to the en-vironment or to the undertaking's profits from infringing the Law. In many cases local environmental authorities have been reluctant to enforce the Law strictly against local undertakings, and the authorities have found it difficult to calculate the profits derived from infringements. The author's study in 1995 showed a sig-nificantly higher level of punishment than his corresponding study in 2005. After the latter study, in 2008 there was an amendment to the Law and the Director of Public Prosecutions has issued guidelines considerably increasing the demands for punishment to be made by prosecuting authorities. This initiative appears to have had an effect, though there have been, as yet, few reported cases.
Den første miljøbeskyttelseslov i Danmark er fra 1973. Miljøbeskyttelsesloven i Danmark regulerer ikke hele naturbeskyttelsen, men kun forureningsspørgsmål. 1973-lovens straffebestemmelse var ret enkel, idet den bestemte, at overtrædelser af loven, regler udstedt i medfør af loven eller afgørelser truffet efter loven »straf-fes med bøde, hæfte eller fængsel indtil 1 år«. Bestemmelsen indeholdt desuden en regel om, at også juridiske personer kunne straffes for overtrædelse af loven. | | Del av verk: | Nordisk tidsskrift for kriminalvidenskab 2/2013 |
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