El sistema de responsabilidad ambiental en Francia y Argentina. Desafios de su implementacion en la Union Europea y en los paises del MERCOSUR
The project had as an objective an approximation to the concept of environmental liability, on the part of both the private legal persons and the State. This concept influences the legal description of environmental damage and of its compensation. The aforementioned analysis received a differentiated dimension in this project, via the comparison between the Argentine legislation and that of the MERCOSUR members, and the French and European ones. The objectives of the project were achieved. Comparative studies were carried out in parallel on the environmental liability regimes of France, the European Union, Argentina and the MERCOSUR members, through inductive and deductive methods, jurisprudential cases and survey techniques among the sectors involved. The relevance obtained by the project during its execution, both in France and in Argentina, merited the collaboration of other specialists in the subject, among them Prof. Francois Trebulle, Dean of the School of Law of the Sorbonne. The result of the project was a work written in collaboration with colleagues of Environmental Law from Universite Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne. It is worth emphasizing that it was the first initiative of this kind that was carried out at Universidad del Salvador, fulfilling the objective of the internationalization of the research. Responsibility in environmental matters presents major challenges: from the principle of common but differentiated responsibility, at international level, to the amount of compensation awarded to society for the collective values affected. The work included recommendations for an effective and efficient application of environmental principles to the subject. As a final conclusion to the analysis of the situation on the topic of environmental liability at regional and international level, we arrived at the following idea, as expressed in the joint work: "From the point of view of Environmental International Law, we should think about the environmental principles in the light of the current regional scene and of the incorporation of some Latin American countries to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Another topic of major relevancy is the financial mechanisms. We are facing a new reconsideration of the increasingly scanty resources from the Global Environment Fund (GEF) which proposes the use of our own financial resources and also the incorporation of a budget line for the resolution of the environmental problems in our countries and in the world."