Plazos de prescripción de las obligaciones patrimoniales surgidas del daño ambiental

Abstract

The following article deals with an important issue for the legal practice before the Environmental Administrative Court’s (Tribunal Ambiental Administrativo): prescription terms concerning: 1. Protective environmental injunctions. 2. Several elements that conform damages’ responsibility issuing from environmental torts. Unlike what many Attorneys assume, as a general rule, there are no prescription terms issuing from pure ecological torts... until they are restored in their fullest extent. The few causes of prescription are limited to “private” (non-pure) torts or, concerning pure ecological torts, for those elements in damages’ responsibility that are limited to torts against the society as a whole, not against natural elements as such.