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Biodiversity Protection:: An Environmental Issue? On Sweden’s Implementation of EU Species Protection Laws in Environmental and Sectoral Legislation
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, Department of Law.
2019 (English)In: Nordisk miljörättslig tidskrift, E-ISSN 2000-4273, Vol. 2019, no 1, p. 69-82Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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A rich diversity of plant and animal life is one of the sixteen environmental goals Swedish environmental law and policy aims to achieve. The EU also seeks to protect biodiversity through its Biodiversity Strategy. To these shared ends, certain plant and animal species are protected by the Swedish Environmental Code and its pursuant Species Protection Regulation, as well as by EU directives. Dispensation allowing exceptions to this protection may be made in accordance with general rules of consideration of the Environmental Code and the dispensation provisions of the Species Protection Regulation, which in part implement the EU biodiversity directives. However, this article shows that a majority of the administrative decisions allowing dispensation to harm species that are strictly protected under both EU and Swedish law are made not under the protective legislation, but under other types of legislation such as the Hunting Act and Fishing Act, which do not have environmental protection as their primary goals. This article highlights the legal consequences of dispensation decisions that affect strictly protected species being made under these various laws.

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2019. Vol. 2019, no 1, p. 69-82
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-389444OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-389444DiVA, id: diva2:1337323
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Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, 802-0061-16Available from: 2019-07-13 Created: 2019-07-13 Last updated: 2023-11-03Bibliographically approved

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