Environmental policy in the European Community

Summary:

Environmental protection has become a theme of major significance. This is true for the Member States and the Community as a whole: it is common knowledge that pollution is no respecter of frontiers and it is therefore essential to fight it on the widest possible scale.

The White Paper on completing the single European market attaches great importance to environment policy because environmental problems may become even more acute through the 1992 objectives being achieved and as a result of the expected acceleration in economic growth. Identical standards of environmental protection must be applied by the Member States in a single market.

This brochure describes and explains the European Community's projects on environmental protection.

Further information:

This is the fourth edition of this publication.

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