Reflexive EU environmental law : exploring divergence in the French and German transposition of the Single-use Plastics Directive

ROSS, Violet; DE ALMEIDA, Lucila; VAN LEEUWEN, Judith; VAN ZEBEN, Josephine

doi:10.1111/reel.12564

Reflexive EU environmental law : exploring divergence in the French and German transposition of the Single-use Plastics Directive

dc.contributor.author	ROSS, Violet
dc.contributor.author	DE ALMEIDA, Lucila
dc.contributor.author	VAN LEEUWEN, Judith
dc.contributor.author	VAN ZEBEN, Josephine
dc.date.accessioned	2024-12-18T13:43:05Z
dc.date.available	2024-12-18T13:43:05Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.description	Published online: 15 July 2024	en
dc.description.abstract	Reflexive environmental law (REL) techniques create potential for reflexivity by regulated companies. This reflexivity is fundamental to overcoming various regulatory hurdles posed by complex and dynamic sustainability challenges, such as plastics circularity. However, even when European Union (EU) environmental legislation incorporates REL techniques, Member State transposition may either undermine or enhance these techniques' potential for driving regulatee reflexivity. This article examines REL's evolution within complex, transnational legislative frameworks, taking the EU's Single-use Plastics Directive (SUPD) as a case study. It compares reflexivity techniques in the SUPD to those in transpositions by France and Germany. Our analysis is based on the coding of 11 REL techniques and three overarching reflexive drivers—autonomy, accountability and adjustability—within four SUPD instruments. Identifying divergence in REL between the SUPD and Member State transpositions allows us to highlight three explanations as to why REL evolves in certain ways through the transposition process.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Review of European, comparative & international environmental law, 2024, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 577-591	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/reel.12564
dc.identifier.endpage	591	en
dc.identifier.issn	2050-0386
dc.identifier.issn	2050-0394
dc.identifier.issue	3	en
dc.identifier.startpage	577	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77667
dc.identifier.volume	33	en
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dc.publisher	Wiley	en
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dc.title	Reflexive EU environmental law : exploring divergence in the French and German transposition of the Single-use Plastics Directive	en
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