guilty of being an owner? Energy Efficiency Ratio
"Every story has its conclusion, the same illusion" , sing Guccini.
Each case is unique, I must say, briefly commenting on the decision of the Administrative Court of Turin No 1575 of 2010 on the
liability for pollution and related obligations for cleaning up contaminated sites (ruling that you can download free on the site of a legal, after you sign up for free
)
What does the owner not guilty of pollution ?
Each story - at least in this area: the remediation of contaminated sites
- has the same conclusion: the mere qualification of the owner or holder of the contaminated soil is not in itself imply the obligation of performing
remediation, so that it can be placed against him only if the person or responsible.
This is a topic discussed over and over again in the pages of blog, che potete consultare collegandovi ai links che trovate al fondo di questo post.
In questo caso, i soggetti coinvolti sono una società di persone, che nei decenni passati svolgeva attività di rigenerazione di fusti e contenitori di materiali liquidi e solidi, su di un terreno preso in affitto dal titolare di un’azienda di lavorazione di prodotti chimici.
Solita vecchia storia di “buoni rapporti tra le parti”: cambiano solo i nomi, e l’oggetto dei rapporti.
In questo caso, io locatore consento a te locatario di depositare sulla mia proprietà dei contenitori in plastica vuoti da rigenerare.
Poi si discovers that the tenant is being investigated on suspicion of having made an illegal dump - then closed the proceedings. Then
involved an ordinance of the City, with whom you distrust the tenant and the landlord to put in emergency, secure the site, and then to clean up and, finally, to restore the status quo ante .
At this point arises the company, which disputes the contents of the order, arguing that the Administration had not justified in proceeding satisfactorily, it was contradicted, and had failed to carry out a series of investigations.
Those of you who were particularly curious can analyze all the reasons advanced by the appellant, by reading the full text of the decision of the Administrative Court of Turin No 1575/10. Here
carry only the words of the administrative judge of Piedmont, who reiterated that the current regulatory system, the 'obligation remediation of contaminated sites rests primarily on the actual polluter itself, which the competent administrative authorities are obliged to identify and find.
The mere title of the owner or holder of contaminated soil, however, does not in itself an obligation to carry out the reclamation.
Consequently, the requirement of drainage can be placed against him only whether responsible or jointly responsible for the offense.
Moreover, in terms of causal, also in the administrative environment, can not apply the rule, codified in the civil trial of the " more likely than not" in a nutshell, "an event is to be considered due to a else - subject to other conditions - the first was not the case in the absence of the latter.
However, the application of this principle must be tempered by regular random, for the reconstruction of the causative link, and should therefore be applied to the peculiarities of individual cases of civil or administrative liability legislation, where changes la regola probatoria”.
Dunque, occorre valutare la peculiarità del caso di specie: e, nella specie, il Collegio ha sottolineato che, mentre ai fini della responsabilità penale vige la regola della prova oltre il ragionevole dubbio, nel processo civile, così come nel campo della responsabilità civile o amministrativa, vige la regola della preponderanza dell'evidenza o del più probabile che non, nel caso facilmente riscontrabile, in via presuntiva, dal fatto che dalle analisi chimiche effettuate dall’ARPA è risultato che, nel terreno oggetto dei campionamenti, sono state riscontrate tracce intollerabili di idrocarburi e metalli pesanti, tipicamente riconducibili al deposito and handling of industrial waste on land, such as those deposited by recourse and then removed.
For a discussion of other cases relating to (not) the liability of a landowner, not guilty of pollution, for the remediation of contaminated sites, read the following post:
Legal nature of Andrea Quaranta: Study of Environmental Legal
.
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