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DG Environment Management Plan for 2010



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DG Environment Management Plan for 2010: 
Mission Statement and Challenges
(by Karl Falkenberg,  
Director General of DG  Environ ment)
The  main  role  of  DG  Environ ment  is  to  initiate  and  define 
new environ ment policy and legislation, to promote integration of 
Figure 11.14. European 
Union flags outside the 
Commission building


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environ mental concerns into other policy areas, and to ensure that 
agreed policy measures are implemented effectively in the EU Member 
States. Its mission statement is ‘protecting, preserving and improving 
the environ ment for present and future generations, and promoting 
sustainable Development’.
The political guidelines highlight that the exit from the crisis should 
be the point of entry into a new sustainable social market economy, 
a smarter, greener economy, where our prosperity will come from 
innovation and from using resources better, and where the key input will 
be knowledge. Conserving energy, natural resources and raw materials, 
using them more efficiently and increasing productivity will be the key 
drivers of the future competitiveness of our industry and our economies. 
Consequently, developing a resource efficient low-carbon economy and 
stimulating green innovation, growth and jobs are among the main 
priorities of the EU-2020 Strategy.
Harnessing the environ ment policy contribution to this goal will 
mean putting in place the right mix of smart regulation, incentives 
and market-based mechanisms to foster eco-innovation, sustainable 
consumption and production and these considerations will underpin all 
our work. Exploiting the resource potential of waste streams, an action 
plan for eco-innovation  and reviewing the Environ ment Technology 
Action Plan, the Thematic Strategy on Natural Resources and the Waste 
Thematic Strategy will be part of the contribution from environ ment 
policy to improve resource efficiency.
The threats from biodiversity  loss are becoming clearer and the 
failure to meet interim goals on biodiversity loss cannot continue. 
The real value of ecosystems must be recognised and the link between 
biodiversity conservation and greenhouse gas mitigation should be fully 
explored. New EU and global targets will have to be agreed in 2010 and 
a new realistic – but ambitious – action plan for biodiversity will have 
to be designed and negotiated. Further initiatives are required to protect 
endangered  species  of  fauna  and  flora  and  to  address  illegal  logging 
and deforestation worldwide. Achieving and maintaining good soil 
quality is essential in a world where resources are becoming increasingly 
scarce and there is increased competition for land use from transport, 
energy, food production and nature preservation and adoption of the 
Commission proposal by the Council will support this goal. A coherent 
forest information system for the EU will also be an important element.
With the adoption of REACH, the new law entered into force 
on  1 June  2007.  (REACH  is  a  European  Community  Regulation 
on  chemicals  and  their  safe  use  (EC  1907/2006).  It  deals  with  the 
Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical 
substances.)  The  EU  has  set  the  benchmark  for  chemicals  policy. 
But it is the implementation of REACH which will determine its 
effectiveness  and  will  be  a  key  area  of  cooperation  with  DG  ENTR 


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(Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry) and ECHA (European 
Chemicals Agency). Registration of chemicals by industry, appropriate 
evaluation by authorities and substitution of substances of very high 
concern are key to ensure the safety of chemicals and will also stimulate 
innovation in the chemical industry. Ensuring a successful co-decision 
outcome on biocides constitute further important elements to increase 
the chemical industry’s sustainability. Nanotechnology is also rapidly 
developing  and  can  bring  benefits  to  the  environ ment  and  contribute 
to  economic  growth,  but  can  only  flourish  if  its  safety  is  ensured  by 
a clear regulatory framework. It is more important than ever to focus 
on using water resources more efficiently, exploiting the potential for 
water savings and on keeping water clean. Implementing the Water 
Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive 
effectively will be essential and will depend on implementation of the 
urban wastewater and nitrate directives in particular. But it will also 
require a cross-cutting approach involving support from other sectoral 
policies.
Air quality legislation brings substantial health and environ mental 
benefits. We need to investigate in more detail the underlying causes of 
implementation problems in some Member States so that the environ-
mental and health benefits from better air quality are secured. In this 
context the adoption of the revised proposal on industrial emissions 
by Council and Parliament is important. In addition, the pending 
Commission proposal for a revision of the directive on national emission 
ceilings of certain air pollutants will be re-examined.
Implementation of our legislation maintains environ mental progress 
and  ensures  that  the  health  and  environ mental  benefits  intended 
from proposals at the time of their adoption actually materialise. 
Implementation gaps notably in the areas of waste and nature legislation 
have to be addressed.
Increasingly, progress in environ ment policy depends on measures 
taken in other policy areas – such as transport, energy or agriculture – 
to address the drivers of environ mental degradation. We must therefore 
ensure that environ mental objectives are mainstreamed  into other 
Community  policies  and  reflected  in  the  preparation  of  the  future 
multiannual Financial Perspectives for the 2014-2020 period.
Improving  and  refining  our  knowledge  base  through better 
information, better management of information systems and the 
Development of appropriate indicators will help target environ-
ment policy as efficiently and as effectively as possible. Following up 
on our communication on GDP and Beyond, we will work to develop 
complementary indicators to GDP to measure societal welfare and 
progress more appropriately. We will work with the EEA (European 
Economic Area) and the Member States on an implementation plan to 
see how a shared environ mental information system could be put in 


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place. 2010 is the international year of biodiversity, and among other 
communication activities, a special focus on this theme is planned.
Environ mental challenges are increasingly global and moving 
towards a green economy and sustainable production and consumption 
patterns requires action well beyond EU borders.
The  EU  is  a  global  leader  in  developing  environ ment  policy  and 
has an important role to play in improving international environ-
mental governance, in particular through multilateral environ mental 
agreements, and ensuring positive synergies with other polices, in 

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