Bei dem Bemühen, die Berücksichtigung von Umwelt- und Ressourcenkosten (URK) gemäß Art. 9 WRRL praktisch umzusetzen, werden im Schrifttum immer wieder zwei "Vereinfachungen" angesprochen, um die als außerordentlich schwierig eingeschätzte URK-Ermittlung und -Anlastung praxistauglich zu...

The requirement of full cost recovery for water services including environmental and resource costs in accordance with the polluter pays principle in Art. 9 EU-Water Framework Directive is a unique provision in the history of the European environmental law. The wording of the provision is a...

Sustainable development (SD) in not only a political aim of the EU, but has been also introduced in the European Treaties in 1997 as both legally binding task and goal. This paper develops a comprehensive interpretative and dogmatic understanding of these provisions and their possible...