Māris kļaviņŠ, azamat azizov, JĀnis zaļoksnis environment, pollution, development: the case of uzbekistan

The  principle  of  preventive  action  requires to prevent 
pollution or other harmful impacts on the environ ment or human 
health as much as possible, or, if it is unfeasible, then at least to 
prevent further spreading of these harmful effects and their negative 
consequences. The principle of prevention combines two EU environ-
mental protection principles – the principle of preventive action and 
the principle of causation.
The principle of preventive action is implemented through such 
re gu latory enactments which require, for example, compliance with 
the environ mental pollutant emission standards or waste ma na-
ge ment regulations. Waste should be processed and disposed of as 
close to its place of origination as possible (the proximity principle), 
and each state or local government should, as far as practicable, by 
itself treat and manage in an environ mentally sound manner the 
waste generated at its territory (the self-sufficiency principle).