European Commission 28 October 2020, COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT EVALUATION of the DIRECTIVE 2008/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on the protection of the environment through criminal law (ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME DIRECTIVE)

Table of contents Staff Working Document (Part 1) 1Introduction 2Background 2.1 History 2.2 Description of the Directive 2.3 The intervention logic 3Methodology 3.1 Approach to information gathering 3.2 Deviations from the evaluation roadmap 3.3 Limitations and robustness of findings 4Baseline and points of comparison 5Implementation/state of Play 5.1 Description of the current situation 5.1.