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Compendium of Good Practices on Human Rights and the Environment
… interest standing provision. Chapter vI addresses legal liability under the law, and imposes various types of liability on violators, including administrative fines and tort liability. Article 60 also allows the government in certain …
Land and water - the rights interface
… usually makes provision for a waiver of government liability for failure to satisfy the water right holder's … rights, while the right itself does not attract a payment liability as a matter of tenure, the tenure itself may be … entity to which the money is owed chooses to enforce the liability against the land right as opposed to any other …
Issues in water law reform
… 16 of the Victorian Water Act 1989. Those rules make liability for damage to others depend on judgments about the … Act. Section 17 is privative, providing that no civil liability exists for damage caused by water to which section … only direct loss or damage triggers compensation, because liability can only subsist for indirect loss or damage where …
Development of an analytical tool to assess national biosecurity legislation
… and Regulation) Act, 1992, in case of non-compliance. A liability regime is in place under the EPA. Recently, some … resulting from GMOs. It provides at Section 42 that "liability and redress for any damage that occurs, as a result … Agriculture • KEPHIS • PCPB 9 P. Kameri-Mbote, Towards a Liability and Redress System under the Cartagena Protocol on …
Covering ABS: Addressing the need for sectoral, geographical,legal and international integration in the ABS regime - papers and studies of the ABS Project
… 31 ILM. 1312 (1992), Art. 16 (1); Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to … 1992, 312 ILM 1330 (1992), Art. 9 (3); Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to … descriptive that does not carry any suggestion of fault or liability, but only the existence of questions which must be …
Conservation with justice - A rights-based approach
… liberty. Increasingly, national law is imposing criminal liability on those who have negative impacts on the … 35 imprisonment for more serious ones. Criminal liability may be primary, accomplice, or conspiracy. In many countries, accomplice liability is imposed on those who give help, support, or …