Environmental Compliance

‘Environmental Compliance’—the organisational ensuring of companies’ compliance with environmental law—relates to one of the most significant topics of the 21st century: environmental protection. This work, which is situated at the point at which corporate law and environmental law overlap, initially examines urgent legal issues at a general level from the perspective of both the USA and Germany: How comprehensive must companies’ compliance measures be? How far do compliance obligations extend within a corporate group? Do compliance obligations also extend to third parties in some cases (‘third party compliance’)?
This work focuses on the corporate organisational obligations established by legislators in the field of environmental law and the additional steps that legislators may consider in this respect. The result is a comprehensive overview of how companies should organise their compliance with this law so that it corresponds to the legal system in which they operate.