Difficulty recovering environmental fines due to lack of authority: EPA

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) highlighted today that their greatest challenge in recovering fines for environmental damages is their lack of authority to take cases directly to court.

Speaking at the Parliament's Environment and Climate Change Committee, EPA Director General Ibrahim Naeem explained that recovering fines for reef damage involves cooperation with foreign countries and various institutions in the Maldives. He emphasized that the inability to directly approach the courts significantly delays the recovery process.