UK: Environment policy

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26/11/1999
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The Commission Working Paper addressed to the European Council, “The Cologne Report on the Environmental Integration - mainstreaming of environmental policy” has been published. At the European Council Meeting in Vienna in December 1998, the Commission was requested to submit a progress report on mainstreaming of environmental policy to the Cologne Summit. The Amsterdam Treaty, which came into force on 1 May 1999, lays down the obligation to integrate the environment into the Community policies. The report by the Commission states that in the three sectors, transport, energy and agriculture, the Commission, in co-operation with the Member States and the European Environment Agency, is developing sets of indicators for the integration of the environment into these sectors. These indicators will be used as a tool for communication between policy makers and socio-economic factors and will form part of the mechanisms for sectoral environment reporting.
(European Commission, August 1999)

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