"The environmental policy of the European Community is nested withina broader institution devoted predominantly to market integration. It also co-exists withthe domestic environmental policies of the member states. This institutional arrangementhas important consequences for environmental governance in the present Union. Notonly does the wide scope for domestic environmental action generate different logics ofharmonization for the regulation of products and processes, it also creates an institutionalpreference for European product standards because this type of regulation allows atrade-off between environmental and single market concerns. This effect is demonstratedby the development of the originally purely environmentally motivated and processrelateddirective on packaging and packaging waste adopted in 1994. During itspreparation, this legislative project was supplemented with a strong product-relatedcomponent that made a trade-off between policies possible and facilitated majoritysupport in the Council." (author's abstract)
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