Traduction de «Criminalité grave au détriment de l'environnement » (Français → Anglais) :

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– Court of Justice judgement relating to environmental crime 13

The Tampere European Council - October 1999 (paragraph 48 of the conclusions) also considered that "with regard to national criminal law, efforts to agree on common definitions, incriminations and sanctions should be focused in the first instance on a limited number of sectors of particular relevance, such as financial crime (money laundering, corruption, Euro counterfeiting), drugs trafficking, trafficking in human beings, particularly exploitation of women, sexual exploitation of children, high tech crime and environmental crime".

On 11 February 2000 Denmark presented an initiative for the establishment of cooperation between the police and the courts to fight environmental crime.

Without prejudice to the broader areas envisaged in the Treaty of Amsterdam and in the Vienna Action Plan, the European Council considers that, with regard to national criminal law, efforts to agree on common definitions, incriminations and sanctions should be focused in the first instance on a limited number of sectors of particular relevance, such as financial crime (money laundering, corruption, Euro counterfeiting), drugs trafficking, trafficking in human beings, particularly exploitation of women, sexual exploitation of children, high tech crime and environmental crime ...[+++].

Nevertheless, the growing popular dissatisfaction with public matters in general affects also the European construction, partly due to economic, social, political and institutional reasons: a high level of unemployment, which is particularly serious in the case of young people and the long-term unemployed; environmental degradation; social rejection and exclusion; major changes in our demographic structures, which undermine the European social model; the crisis in the political contract between representatives and those represented; the European Union's growing complexity and the lack of information on, and understanding of, its rai ...[+++]son d'être; finally, the worrying phenomenon of organized crime (drug trafficking, money laundering, terrorism).