Chapter 3: System of Environmental Law
3.5. Enforcement of Environmental Laws
When it comes to the enforcement of environmental laws, a distinction is first made between those at the World Commonwealth level and those at the World Commonwealth constituent Zonal level.
The law enforcement system at the World Commonwealth level refers to the supervision of environmental law enforcement at the Zonal level by the World Environment Program, a World Commonwealth agency.
The World Environment Programme is a subordinate organ of the Sustainability Council, one of the main organs of the World Commonwealth, and is the organ that plans and implements environmental policies at the global level. It periodically reviews the enforcement of environmental laws in each Zone and has the authority to issue recommendations or stronger warnings as necessary.
If a Zone does not comply with the warnings, it will dispatch an environmental inspection team and conduct a compulsory investigation. If the inspection reveals any problems, the World Environment Programme will issue a new, binding corrective order, and if a Zone is not followed, it can recommend to the World Commonwealth General Assembly that the Zone be suspended from membership in the World Commonwealth.
On the other hand, enforcement at the Zonal level is directly handled by the the Commons' Convention, which is the representative body of the people in a communist society without the governmental structures that exist today, as is the case with other laws in environmental laws.
Here, the core of the environmental law enforcement body is the Sustainability Committee, which is also one of the standing committees of the Commons' Convention. This committee is the center of environmental policy making and legislation, and at the same time, it is the presiding body of environmental laws, which is established in each of the Zonal and its local Commons' Conventions and is responsible for everything from environmental impact assessment to the enforcement of environmental laws.
In particular, under the Sustainability Committee of the Zonal Commons' Conventions, the Environmental Inspection Offices are established in each region as the agencies responsible for on-site law enforcement. These offices are the practical agencies for the environmental impact assessments carried out by the Sustainability Committee, and at the same time, they are also environmental law enforcement agencies that uncover violations of environmental laws.
Similarly, local authorities within a unitary Zone or Zonelets constituting a federal Zone may also set up their own environmental enforcement agency under their Sustainability Committees.
👉The papers published on this blog are meant to expand upon my On Communism.
