HOLLOW HARMONISATION? CLOSING THE IMPLEMENTATION GAP IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
✍ Scribed by Caddy, Joanne
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0961-0405
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✦ Synopsis
The countries of Central Europe (CE) are currently engaged in a legislative reform programme, unprecedented in its scale and breadth, which has as its point of reference the legislation of the European Union (EU). This process of legislative approximation or harmonisation is now well underway in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, and impacts upon all areas of domestic legislation, including that of environmental issues. This paper provides a brief overview of the general features of harmonisation with EU environmental legislation, highlights the importance of ensuring the implementation and enforcement of newly-harmonised legislation, examines the case of environmental impact assessment (EIA) legislation and calls for increased attention to the strengthening of both formal and informal institutions for the environment in Central Europe.