First edition of the International Seminar on Restorative Justice and the Environment, August 2020, published by AJUFE
This contribution introduces the main innovations, the unsolved problems and the future challenges brought by the Law of 22 May 2015, No. 68. Such topics are in-depth analyzed throughout the papers published in the present Issue, which constitute the conference proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the International Association of Penal Law, Young Penalists of the Italian Group, held in Florence on December 2nd, 2016.
The object of this article is the relevance given to the so-called best available techniques in the definition and detection of environmental crimes. In order to explore this topic, it's fundamental to clarify what is intended for BAT and how they operate in the environmental law system, before to evaluate under what terms criminal law might apply them. To do so, it's necessary to examine the nature of the BAT, analyzing how their identification inevitably involves political and economical factors - and not merely technical ones.