The paper discusses the concept of ‘environmental justice’ in the European Union, approaching it from the perspective of the centre-periphery gap in the EU, that is, the divide between the Member States from Western and Northern Europe on the one hand and Central and Eastern Europe on the other. It identifies distributive, procedural and corrective injustices that make the EU periphery, albeit less responsible for historical and contemporary environmental harms in Europe, bear the greater environmental burden, in addition to having less influence over environmental decision-making than the EU centre. The discussion is informed by the ideas that have emerged in US scholarship, especially regarding the concept of environmental justice itself, as well as the critical analysis of the (re)distributive effects of law and the identity critique of law. The paper concludes with a reflection on possible avenues for integrating environmental justice concerns into the EU legal and institutional framework in order to better address the centre-periphery gap and mitigate existing regional inequalities in environmental matters. Keywords: environmental justice, European Union, centre-periphery gap, distributive injustice, procedural injustice, corrective injustice.

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欧盟的环境正义：一次重要的重新评估

本文讨论了欧盟中的“环境正义”概念，并从欧盟的中心－周边差距的角度来探讨它，即一方面是西欧和北欧成员国之间的鸿沟，另一方面是中欧之间的鸿沟。和东欧。它确定了分配，程序和纠正上的不公正，这些不公正使欧盟外围国家（尽管对欧洲历史和当代环境损害的责任较小）承担了更大的环境负担，并且对环境决策的影响比欧盟中心要小。讨论的依据是美国学术界涌现的各种思想，特别是关于环境正义本身的概念，以及对法律（重新）分配效应的批判性分析和对法律身份的批判。本文最后总结了将环境司法问题纳入欧盟法律和制度框架的可能途径，以更好地解决中心与周边地区之间的差距并减轻环境问题中现有的地区不平等现象。关键词：环境正义，欧洲联盟，中心与周边的差距，分配不公，程序性不公，矫正性不公。