1    The state of reporting by the EC Commission in fulfilment of obligations contained in EC environmental legislation 1993 IEEP, London.

2    Commission of the EC 1996 Implementing Community Environmental Law. COM(96)500.

3    European Environment Agency: Reporting on Environmental Measures: Are we being effective? EEA November 2001.

4    Judgment of 13 September 2005, Case C-176/03, Commission v Council, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:62003J0176:EN:HTML

5    Judgment of 23 October 2007, Case C 440/05, Commission v Council, http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=EN&Submit=rechercher&numaff=C-440/05

6    Council Framework Decision 2005/667/JHA of 12 July 2005 to strengthen the criminal-law framework for the enforcement of the law against ship-source pollution, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/com/2007/com2007_0051en01.pdf

7    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, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:328:0028:01:EN:HTML