Institute for European Environmental Policy


  • The Manual: Chapter 2 - Air quality

    This is a chapter of IEEP’s Manual of European Environmental Policy. This chapter focuses on EU air quality policy. The policy field is extensive and contains many directives that impose standards, provisions and developments of air quality management and regulation.

    air
    air quality
    benefits of legislation
    industrial pollution
    pollution
    thematic strategies 
    27 Nov 2014
  • The Manual: Chapter 1 - Policy framework

    This is a chapter of IEEP’s Manual of European Environmental Policy. In this chapter, the reader is introduced to European environmental policy, EU institutions and agencies, and the development of EU treaties.

    environmental action programme
    Environmental Policy Integration
    EU 2020 strategy
    EU institutions
    EU treaties
    Lisbon Treaty
    marine
    natural resources
    pesticides
    policy instruments
    pollution
    thematic strategies
    urban 
    27 Nov 2014
  • The Manual: Chapter 7 - Resource use

    This is a chapter of IEEP’s Manual of European Environmental Policy. This is a chapter of IEEP’s Manual of European Environmental Policy. This chapter illustrates the variety of EU laws, policies and guidance documents that have been adopted to improve the efficiency of our use of natural resources and to reduce environmental impacts throughout a product's life cycle.

    benefits of legislation
    eco-innovation
    eco-labelling
    environmental action programme
    green economy
    natural resources
    packaging
    recycling
    resource use
    RoHS
    Strategic Environmental Assessment
    thematic strategies
    waste
    WEEE 
    27 Nov 2014
  • The Manual: Chapter 6 - Waste

    This is a chapter of IEEP’s Manual of European Environmental Policy. This chapter on EU waste policies focuses on the management of waste, the environmental requirements with which waste management installations must comply and the big picture policy initiatives focused on waste.

    benefits of legislation
    best practice
    better regulation
    chemicals
    environmental action programme
    land use
    natural resources
    thematic strategies
    transport
    waste
    Waste Framework Directive 
    27 Nov 2014
  • Economic instruments to improve waste management

    This report investigates a range of economic instruments in place in the EU Member States to improve waste management. It focuses on disposal taxes, pay-as-you-throw systems and producer responsibility schemes, and attempts to assess their contribution to waste management performance.

    best practice
    economics
    environmental taxation
    financial instruments
    incineration
    landfill
    market based instruments
    packaging
    policy instruments
    producer responsibility
    recycling
    sustainable consumption and production
    thematic strategies
    waste
    Waste Framework Directive
    WEEE 
    10 Apr 2012
  • Assessment of the 6th Environment Action Programme

    This report presents the results of an independent evaluation of the 6th Environment Action Programme (6EAP). The overall objective of this evaluation was to provide an in-depth assessment of the achievements of the 6EAP since its adoption in 2002 to the end of 2010.

    environmental action programme
    governance
    thematic strategies 
    26 Mar 2011
  • Review of the Waste Thematic Strategy

    This report supported the European Commission’s review of the Thematic Strategy on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste. It summarises available data on waste management in the EU, assesses progress towards the EU becoming a ‘recycling society’, outlines the achievements of the Waste Thematic Strategy, and makes recommendations for the development of future EU waste policies.

    incineration
    landfill
    natural resources
    packaging
    policy instruments
    producer responsibility
    recycling
    resource use
    RoHS
    sustainable consumption and production
    thematic strategies
    waste
    Waste Framework Directive
    WEEE 
    11 Mar 2011

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