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European Communities: Declaration on the Environmental Action Program*

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International Legal Materials , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 164 - 216
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1974

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[Reproduced from the Official Journal of the European Communities, Vol. 16, No. C 112 (December 20, 1973).]

References

1 OJ No C 9,15. 3. 1973, p. 1.

1 Title III constitutes a summary which must therefore be interpreted in the light of and within the limits of the detailed description of the projects in the Second Part of the programme.

1 For the definition of this and other terms contained in this Programme see Annex I.

2 The means by which this cooperation will be effected will be defined at a future date.

1 The implementation of this type of action would involve taking a decision of principle at Community level regarding the grant of development aids. At the same time appropriate procedures should also be decided upon to allow participation, in individual cases by experts appointed by the Member States.

1 OJ No L 153, 9. 6. 1973, p. 11 and OJ No L 189, 11. 7. 1973, p. 43.

1 OJ No C 33, 23. 5. 1973, p. 1.

1 These pollutants will receive priority investigation.

2 In the case of these pollutants, the work necessary for standardizing measuring methods will have to be started an soon as possible.

1 See definition No 3.1 in Annex I.

2 Nuisances include noise (which also covers vibrations and subsonic or supersonic waves).

3 These levels correspond to the health protection standards laid down by the WHO

1 A region may compromise the whole territory of a Member State

1 The concept of the allotted purpose of an environment includes its uses and the part it plays ecologically.

1 OJ No C 76, 17.6. 1969, p. 1.

2 OJ No C 38, 5.6. 1973, p. 1.

1 With regard to carbon monoxide and unburnt hydrocarbons, the only pollutants affected by this Directive, a first proposal may be transmitted shortly. For other pollutants, the Commission’s proposals will be transmitted in the light of the results obtained in connection with the harmonization of measuring methods.

2 This work should, particularly as regards fuel-oils, be carried out in the light of the work referred to in Chapter 5, Section 2 of this Title.

3 Priority will be given to study of the substances referred to in Chapters 1 and 2 of this Title.

1 For a number of years the Community has already been implementing rules on the approval of new substances and products in the field of food additives and additives to animal feedingstuffs.

2 This study wil be based especially on the work done in this field in the Benelux (qua organization).

1 Account will be taken of the results obtained by the OECD and the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society.

1 The implementation of this type of action would involve taking a decision of principle at Community level regarding the grant of development aids. At the same time appropriate procedures should also be decided upon to allow participation, in individual cases by experts appointed by the Member States.

2 The projects should not hinder the Community’s or the Member States’ efforts to fix quality objectives and standards.

3 These studies will be conducted on the basis of the OFCD’s work in this field.

1 These tasks would be carried out on the basis of the work done in this field by the OECD.

1 Such harmonzation would be facilitated by the participation of the Commission in the work of the Commissions set up by these agreements with a view to ensuring their implementation.

1 See definition No 2 in Annex I.

2 Community action in this field will be carried out along the lines of Chapter 2 of this Title.

1 This list of wastes and the order of priority may be amended or supplemented in the light of the results of the inventory mentioned in (a).

2 The implementation of this type of action would involve taking a decision of principle at Community level regarding the grant of development aids. At the same time appropriate procedures should also be decided upon to allow participation, in individual cases, by experts appointed by the Member States.

2 Without prejudice to the measures recommended by the Commission in its Memorandum of 24 March 1971 on the system of charging for the use of transport infrastructures.

1 The implementation of this type of action would involve taking a decision of principle at Community level regarding the grant of development aids. At the same time appropriate procedures should also be decided upon to allow participation, in individual cases, by experts appointed by the Member States.

2 This ought not, however, to have any delaying effect on the application of emergency measures in cases where there is a real or potential danger to man or his environment, since these measures can be reviewed and modified subsequently in the light of the results of research carried out.

3 The implementation of this type of action would involve taking a decision of principle at Community level regarding the grant of development aids. At the same time appropriate procedures should also be decided upon to allow participation, in individual cases, by experts appointed by the Member States.

4 OJ No L 153, 9.6. 1973, p. 11.

5 OJ No L 189, 4.1. 1973, p. 43.

1 OJ No C 122, 10.12. 1971, p. 7.

1 OJ No C 33, 23.5. 1973, p. 1.

1 OJ No L 96, 23.4. 1972, p. 9.

2 OJ No L 96, 23.4. 1972, p. 1.

3 The Commission is continuing its work of harmonizing the legislation on agricultural produce and foodstuffs and on veterinary and zootechnical questions; the Council has received a large number of proposals for Directives and Regulations and others will be forwarded in the next few months.

1 Due account will be taken of the results obtained in the Council of Europe in this connection.

2 The Meadows Report, ‘Limits to Growth’, which can be greatly improved upon as to its basic data on non-regenerating resources, adopts a global approach to the problem of exhaustion, in the near or distant future, of certain resources which are essential to economic growth. This report also underlines the importance of salvaging and recycling in the conservation of mineral resources and the fight against pollution by certain metals (mercury, chrome, cadmium).

1 Measures to combat pollution of the high seas should also be taken into consideration when coastal areas are being developed.

2 In the course of this work the studies carried out by the OECD on the problems of developing Mediterranean coastal areas should be consulted.

1 The measures in this chapter refer to the whole of the objectives of an environmental policy as specified in the programme.

1 It should be remembered that:

—the Ministers of the Environment who met in Bonn on 31 October 1972 were unanimous in considering that the States of the European Communities should act together with regard to the activities of international organizations in the field of the environment and endeavour to adopt a joint position.

—Article 5 of the Agreement of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting in the Council of 5 March 1973 on information for the Commission and for the Member States with a view to possible harrmonization throughout the Communities of urgent measures concerning the protection of the environment (OJ No C 9, 15. 3. 1973) provides that the Governments of the Member States will coordinate their views on any international initiative in respect of the environment likely to affect the functioning of the common market or the implementation of those parts of the Communities’ programme for the reduction of pollution and nuisances and the protection of the natural environment to which the procedure laid down in item 2 applies by virtue of item 3, without prejudice to the application of the Treaties and in particular of Articles 113 and 116 of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community.

1 Such methods of use and specifications may be issued in the form of ‘codes of practice’.

2 As part of the multiannual Research and Training Programme and COST projects.