More enforcement needed in environment policy, says EEB

摘要

Environmental enforcement is bad, the environment does not have its "own voice" and its administration is ill equipped to control it, said the European Environmental Bureau in launching its Environmental Policy Handbook earlier this month. "The solution is not dilution or decentralisation, but the efficient use of existing tools to achieve our environmental targets," said EEB policy director Stefan Scheuer. "This book provides practical assistance to do this." EU environmental laws had much to offer but were not always applied correctly and sometimes not respected at all, the EEB said. For 30 years, environmental legislation aimed to set a "high level of protection." Many, but by no means all, of EU laws were strong and set common objectives.