Report of the Commission of the European Communities to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. Rio de Janeiro: June 1992

Summary:

Report published by the European Commission ahead of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. It unveils the Community's environmental policy objectives following the signing of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU), also known as the Maastricht Treaty. It described the Community's traditional "command and control" approach, its limits to this approach and the challenges in ensuring the discipline to accept and achieve sustainable development across all areas of environmentally significant activity. It also covers the action undertaken by the Community concerning global environmental issues.

• Primary Source

European Commission: DG Environment: Summary of the report by the Commission of the European Communities to the Earth Summit. The United Nations Conference on environment and development: Rio de Janeiro, June 1992 https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/ffb3db22-29d6-4dd4-9929-62c031831f14

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