Liability of companies for environmental damage
An own-initiative report on the liability of companies for environmental damage. The amendments treat environmental protection as a fundamental right, call for criminal liability of legal persons and criminal sanctions for environmental offences, propose recognising ecocide as a crime, link environmental offences to organised crime and corruption, and seek stronger support from the Commission, Europol and Eurojust for prosecutors' and judges' networks.
Procedure timeline
- Committee amendments tabled5 Nov 2020 – 18 Dec 2020
- Plenary vote — Passed20 May 2021 · On the motion for a resolution
- Procedure completed
Plenary votes
1 roll-call votesIn plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →
- 20 May 2021Main votePassedoutcome from totalsOn the motion for a resolutionOfficial label: Proposition de résolution · what was voted ↗536 for121 against36 abstentions12 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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Official amendment documents
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The amendments, in full text
480 amendmentsEvery amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.