Practice question
A regulator proposes a pollution fee but asserts that Principle 16 alone fixes its amount and authorizes collection without any applicable domestic legal basis. Which is the sound response?
- The declaration automatically sets every fee worldwide
- Every regulator may choose any amount without authority
- Principle 16 guides policy but does not itself specify a levy or replace the legal authority needed to impose it
- The principle forbids every pollution fee
- Only victims may ever impose a tax
Legal references
- https://www.un.org/esa/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm — Rio Declaration (1992), Principle 16
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