The Environmental Policy of the European Community

2019 ◽  
pp. 145-157
Author(s):  
Robert Hull
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
European Community

Environmental policy in the European community

1993 ◽  
Vol 129 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
J.W. Copius Peereboom ◽  
H. Bezemer
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
European Community

Energy and Environmental Policy in the European Community and Canada

1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-220
Author(s):  
Alastair R. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
European Community ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Tradeable Permits ◽  
Environmental Laws ◽  
Environmental Audits

European Community and Canadian federal environmental laws as they affect the energy sector -oil and gas, and non-nuclear electricity generation- are reviewed and comparatively analyzed. The study concludes that it is appropriate to consider the development of both the Canadian and European environmental law in terms of a federal model and that there are legal federalism lessons to be learned from both sides. While from an energy sector perspective EC and Canadian environmental policy and law have developed in a broadly similar manner, the study shows important differences in timing and pace of implementation. Canadian energy industries were required to respond earlier to strengthening and harmonizing of air quality standards, and to the scientific and public review demands of environmental assessment than their European counterparts. EC air pollution measures targeted the energy sector more directly and explicitly than is the case in Canada. The EC has also been more successful in coordinating and integrating environmental and energy policy, and is closer to implementing economic pollution control instruments such as tradeable permits and taxes. Canada has placed greater emphasis on civil and criminal liability, including personal liability ofcorporate officers and directors, and the energy sector hasresponded with environmental audits and improvements in compliance and corporate environmental planning. The Canadian energy sector has, to a greater extent than the European imdustry, been required to deal with increasingly extensive rights of the public to participate in environmental decisions.

scholarly journals Environmental Action Programmes of the European Union – Programmes Supporting the Sustainable Development Strategy of the European Union

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-90
Author(s):  
Elisabeta-Emilia Halmaghi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
European Community ◽  
Environmental Action ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Legislative Proposals ◽  
Stockholm Conference

Abstract Since 1972, at the level of the European Community, as a result of the Stockholm Conference, a series of successive programmes have been adopted, which have established both future legislative proposals and prospects on environmental policy. The programmes were aimed at setting goals that will be achieved in environmental protection field in the European Community. So far, seven such programmes have been established, called Environmental Action Programmes.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

1992 ◽  
Vol 43 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 157-175
Author(s):  
Werner Meissner
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
European Community

Estuarine, Coastal and Ocean Pollution: EEC Policy and Research

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Bourdeau ◽  
H. Barth
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
European Community ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Environmental Chemicals ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Future Orientations ◽  
Estuarine Coastal ◽  
Marine Environmental

This paper presents an overview of the policy and research of the European Community concerning estuarine, coastal and marine pollution. The structure and implementation of the European Community marine environmental policy, intended to combat the various types of pollution of the sea, and to protect the European waterways and the marine environment are described. Particular reference is made to actions dealing with oil pollution and other harmful chemical substances released into the sea. The environmental research programme, aimed at providing scientific support to the environmental policy of the European Community, addresses short-, mid- and long-term problems. Thus it deals mostly with pollution : its sources, detection, fate, pathways, environmental and genetic effects; and abatement and prevention of pollution by oil, wastes, fertilizers, heavy metals and other environmental chemicals. It is also increasingly concerned with improving the understanding of the functioning of estuarine, coastal and marine ecosystems. The future orientations of the Community's marine environmental policy and research are discussed. These will stress the preventive aspects of environmental protection.

De invloed van het internationaal milieubeleid op de totstandkoming van het milieubeleid in Vlaanderen, 1980-1990

Res Publica ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Marc Hooghe
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
European Community ◽  
National Government ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
International Level ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
International Environmental Policy ◽  
Environmental Measures ◽  
Political Decision Making

In studies on political decision-making, attention is often limited to domestic factors. However, this study demonstrates that international considerations can play a key role in the decision-making process. Since 1980, competence for environmental policy in Belgium is shared by the national government and the three autonomous regions. The 134 most important environmental measures which have been issued in Flanders since 1980, were studied, and international influence proved to be considerable. In 78 cases, the measure was brought into being due to the environmental policy of the European Community. In 39 cases, there were influences from other sources of international environmental policy.  This left only 17 measures which had no clear connection with international environmental policy. It seems that policy scholars have not yet fully realized the extent of this shift of power from the national to the international level, and have rather neglected the international decision-making process.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document