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This judgment acknowledges that the Commission, with Parliament’s support, was right to annul the framework decision on environmental protection via criminal law. It recognises that environmental protection requires concerted action to punish the most serious breaches. Accordingly, its objective and its substance fall under the competence of Community action programmes on the environment (EC Treaty) and not under the provisions of the EU Treaty on police and judicial cooperation on criminal matters.
In recognition of the fact that, broadly speaking, the Community does not have any powers on criminal matters, a useful precedent has been set whereby matters under the third pillar are communitarised and parliamentary control is strengthened in an area as sensitive as criminal law.
The consequences are enormous, in terms of both adopting future legal instruments and the legal instruments already in force. These should be based on a new legal basis, the first pillar, which implies Parliament’s participation as co-legislator.
A framework decision on the environment has been annulled but its consequences will be felt beyond this area, throughout Community policies and in fundamental freedoms when it becomes necessary to make use of criminal law measures to ensure their efficiency."@en1
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