Penal Protection for The Environment from The Effects of Spilling Oil on The Ground

Abstract

   Oil wealth is one of the important topics that have received wide attention at the international and regional level due to its importance in all fields, and on the other hand because it poses a threat to the environment, public health and biological diversity due to its wrong use, so the Iraqi legislator was keen to criminalize pouring oil on the surface of the earth or injecting it into Classes that are used for human and agricultural purposes, and then he arranged punitive provisions on the perpetrator of the crime and made them fall under penalty of misdemeanor in terms of severity with the penalty of imprisonment, and his provisions represented by the legal basis for them were mentioned in the Iraqi Environmental Law No 27 of 2009 in force.