Legal Regime for Environmental Damage Responsibility — Acquired Experience Report 2008-2021

The Legal Regime of Responsibility for Environmental Damage was established in Portugal by Decree-Law No 147/2008 of 29 July 2008, as amended — Diploma RA, which transposed Parliament’s Directive 2004/35/EC into national law European and Council of 21 October — Environmental Liability Directive (Dra), which approved, on the basis of the polluter-pays principle, the system relating to environmental liability applicable to the prevention and repair of environmental damage. The RA Diploma applies both to environmental damage and to the imminent threats of these damage caused as a result of the exercise of any activity carried out in the context of an economic activity, irrespective of its public nature, or private, profitable or not (occupational activity), listed in Annex III thereto. Regulation (EU) 2019/1010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June on the harmonisation of reporting obligations information in the context of environmental legislation, Article 3 of which amends the In particular Article 18 thereof, defining the data and information to be collected Member States and to be submitted to the European Commission by 30 April 2022, and every five years thereafter. The purpose of this report is to comply with this obligation, being the third a series of annual reports, which began to be published in 2020 (on year 2019), anticipating the disclosure to the public of the information set out in the Annex VI of the ELD, as amended by Article 3 of that Regulation.