The European Environment Agency could have a greater role to play in assessing the environmental impact of other EU policies, according to one MEP asked to give an opinion on whether the European Parliament should sign off the EEA's 2007 budget. Hungarian centre right MEP Peter Olajos, who has written a secondary opinion for the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee for the lead Budgetary Control Committee, says that the effectiveness of environment programmes is often hampered by the failure to assess the environmentalimpacts of other Community legislation and programmes. For this reason the EEA could further develop its environmental impact assessment work, Olajos claims.
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