10.3 Ensure full compliance and enforcement of the environmental liability regime (i.e. Directive...

The aim of environmental liability is to make the person or organisation responsible for environmental damage (the polluter) pay to repair the damage caused (the polluter pays principle). The European Parliament and Council Directive of 21 April 2004...

Target 11: Ensure coherent implementation of biodiversity-related commitments and agreements, and...

There are six conventions on biodiversity at global level: the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory...

11.1 Ensure coherent implementation of biodiversity agreements to which Belgium is a Party and avoid...

The decisions of biodiversity-related conventions need to be implemented in a coherent and harmonised manner. To achieve this, Belgium first needs an overview of all decisions related to horizontal issues under the biodiversity conventions (such as...