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Crimes Against Wildlife
Vokoun, Michal ; Dvořák, Marek (advisor) ; Šelleng, Dalibor (referee)
Crimes Against Wildlife The subject matter of this diploma thesis is the protection of wildlife species by means of criminal law. It maps the current legal regulation in this area at the international level, on the EU level, as well as in the Czech national law, especially in terms of possible criminal sanctions that can be imposed under the law for illegal handling of these animals. On the global scale, it covers in particular the CITES Convention, but also other international conventions such as the Bonn Convention, the ICRW or the Bern Convention. As for the law of the European Union, it works with the CITES Regulation and other related regulations, as well as the Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law. As far as the Czech law is concerned, the thesis provides a detailed analysis of the crimes most closely related to the issue, i.e. the crime of unauthorized handling of protected wildlife species under s. 299 of the Criminal Code and s. 300 of the Criminal Code (in the negligent variant) and the crime of poaching under s. 304 of the Criminal Code. Here, it analyses the individual elements of these crimes, including the circumstances conditioning the application of higher penal rates, and also addresses the justification and difficulties with the application of...
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