The Environment - A Crucial Component of Long-Lived Upsurge in the European Union

Abstract

Environmental Community Policy aims at upholding long-lived development and at preserving the natural setting intact to the very benefit of both the extant and the yet unborn generations. It goes upon integrating environmental protection into the remaining Community Policies, taking staving-off steps, observing the “damage paying polluter” principle, fighting environmental pollution at its factual origin and partaking of charges. The acquis communitaire counts in over 200 regulative settlements which cover such areas as: the horizontal legislation, fouling and air-defilement issues, waste and dry-salter management problems, biotechnology, environmental protection, industrial defilement and risk management problems, noise-protection routines and radiation-defence systems.

Keywords

• European Union
• Community Policies
• environmental acquis
• environmental aspects