Environmental liability and nature protection areas Will the EU Environmental Liability Directive actually lead to the restoration of damaged natural resources?

The article discusses the issue concerning the effectiveness of the European Union (EU) Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) in addressing environmental damage. The ELD focuses on imposing liability to people on the damage they cause to the environment subjecting them to fines and penalties which aims to promote enhancing environmental protection. It provides an overview on the definitio of ELD and an assessment whether the environmental damage meets the requirements found on the directive's threshold criteria. It concludes that people responsible for environmental damage should carry out remedial actions to restore affected affected areas as states in Annex II of the ELD.