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34 Arab L.Q. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/arablq34 and id is 1 raw text is: ARAB LAW QUARTERLY 34 (2020) 1-23 Arab Law BRILL Quarterly N IJ H O F F brill.com/alq Penal Protection of Public Health from the Effects of Pollution in the UAE Federal Law Ibrahim Suleiman Al Qatawneh Associate Professor in Criminal Law, College of Law, Al-Ain University for Science and Technology, Al-Ain, UAE Ibrahemzamel2ooo@hotmaiLcom Abstract The UAE federal legislator is keen to protect the environment and its development by amending the Federal Environmental Protection and Development Law No. 24 of 1999, which provides for the penal protection of public health by criminalising any act that damages the quality of water, air and land, or generates excessive noise or misman- ages the disposal of hazardous substances and medical wastes. The UAE Federal Law imposes penalties for all such violations, however without achieving the purpose of deterrence or punishment. Keywords UAE penal protection - public health - pollution - environmental law 1 Introduction The subject of this analytical research is the penal protection of public health from the effects of pollution in light of the UAE Federal Environmental Protection and Development Law No. 24 of 1999. This law expresses many of the penal manifestations generally aimed to protect public health from the effects of pollution, particularly regarding violations leading to air, water and land pollution, to excessive noise, or to the unsafe disposal of hazardous sub- stances or medical wastes. The aims of this study are embedded in the concepts of public health and pollution: namely, to determine the purpose of penal protection with regard to © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2020 1 DOI:10.1163/15730255-12322063