Evaluating the application of eu environmental standards in european public banks’ investment projects in third countries
Journal: RePub (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
Year: 2016

The topic lies primarily in the field of European environmental law. It focuses on the ‘export’ of European environmental legal standards to the third countries by the Europe-based investment banks (such as EBRD, EIB, NIB). In 2006 these banks voluntarily agreed to apply the EU legal environmental standards to their foreign direct investment projects in the third countries, where feasible. &#13;\nThe major question the project addresses is how to trace the (non-)application of these standards in