Within the European Community, the overall objective is the improved and continued welfare of all its citizens. The Single Market is designed not only for the trading of goods and services but also as a catalyst to hold the Member States and their peoples together and to motivate and provide the framework for their socieeconomic growth. The long-term success of the Single Market will be dependent upon the relative contributions of the industrial, energy, regional development and agricultural policies and the ability of the transport policy literally to deliver the goods. All of these policies are interdependent; the ultimate limiting factor for continued efficiency and growth as they interface with one another is the tolerance level of the natural environment.
In conjunction with the publication of the 5th Programme, and indeed underpinning its essential strategy, an updated Report on the State of the Environment will be published. Among the conclusions to be drawn from that Report will be the following:
Y The European Community's environment policy is a relatively -Atmospheric Pollution: Some progress has been made in young policy. Not having been provided for in the original reducing emissions of sulphur dioxide and suspended particulates, Treaties, the environment and the quality of life first became a lead and CFCS, but serious problems are now emerging as respects matter for Community preoccupation at the Summit of a number of 'greenhouse' gases and in particular, carbon dioxide, Community Heads of State and Government in October 1972. The nitrous oxides. Ozone and methane. Summit's concern had been precipitated by the \Jgmings issued in 1972 by the Club of R m e and the United Nations Conference on -Aquatic Pollution: Some progress has been achieved with point