CHEN Guang-wei¡¡LI Lai-lai
CHEN Guang-wei
(Commission for Integrated Survey of Natural Resources, CAS, Beijing 100101)
LI Lai-lai
(LEAD-China, Beijing 100045)
Abstract: The member countries of European Union (EU) have reached an agreement to the common standard in environmental protection, having gone through a series of discussions and negotiations. The agreement was meant to remove the trade barriers, centered on environmental protection and extended to cover the issues of resources conservation. Now the EU has become the regional political authority extending beyond the national borders. And EU Environmental Protection Agency functions as an umbrella, playing a comprehensive role in handling the issues of environmental protection, resources conservation, and biodiversity as well as issues of industry and agriculture.
In the last 40 years, EU has gone through a process from individual responsibility to the common laws and actions observed by all its member countries, from focusing on the industrial pollution control to the all-round efforts at reservation of the earth ¬ğ s ecological system, and from emphasizing on pollution control to preventing pollution at the beginning.These experience has great value for China's sustainable development strategy.
Keywords: EU, legislation procedure, citizen's rights, policy of protection
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