Is there an environmental criminal law? Environmental law is emerging as a new, third-generation, collective, peripheral, predominantly public, fundamental, preventive rather than repressive, global, universal and inalienable right, a right of interrelation, the object of which is essentially natural, changing and interdisciplinary. In turn, environmental criminal law could be defined as “the set of legal norms with criminal content aimed at protecting the environment in which man lives and is in contact”.