{"id":30995,"date":"2010-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.commercialriskonline.com\/ecj-confirms-onus-on-polluter-to-prove-not-liable-in-first-eld-ruling\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T21:44:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T21:44:29","slug":"ecj-confirms-onus-on-polluter-to-prove-not-liable-in-first-eld-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialriskonline.com\/ecj-confirms-onus-on-polluter-to-prove-not-liable-in-first-eld-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"ECJ confirms onus on polluter to prove not liable in first ELD ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has passed down its first judgements on pollution cases under the Environmental Liability Directive (ELD), which have backed up the \u2018polluter pays\u2019 principle enshrined in the new regime and...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div 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