Reform in CEE-Countries with Regard to European Enlargement: Institution Building and Public Administration Reform in the Environmental Sector - Environmental Protection in the European Union Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004 edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2004.; This volume contains the papers discussed at a conference held at Brandenburg University of Technology on the guidelines, instruments and programs available to facilitate the accession of Central and Eastern European countries to the EU, taking Poland as an example. Table of Contents: Session 1 EC Environmemtal Law and its Enforcement.- Instruments of European law and questions concerning their implementation at national level as exemplified by water law, immission control law and waste law.- Poland as an example for the harmonization of European law the environmental and planning law requirements for the licensing of intensive animal farms.- The harmonization of Polish environmental protection law with European Union law.- The organizational and legal instruments available for harmonizing Polish environmental law with EC environmental law.- The EU Rural Development Programme and the accession process.- Public access to information on the environment and environmental law implementation the new legislation in practice.- Development of ecological farming in Poland, other trends in food production and their prospects within the EU market.- Organizational and legal instruments available to public authorities for the protection of the environment.- Session 2 Experiences in Institution Building and Future Requirements for Reporting and Evaluation.- Transborder regions and administrative boundaries: institution building on the basis of common environmental values and its role in the enlargement of the EU.- The adoption of the acquis communautaire in environmental legislation in the accession countries examples under German co-ordination.- Twinning as an instrument for implementing the principles of ecological planning in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.- Twinning a challenge for both candidate countries and Member States.- Bulgaria s accession to the European Union.- Development of environmental education in Brandenburg an assessment of financial support programmes and structures.- Landscape planning in Eastern Europe an established instrument for nature protection in Germany and its potential as a model for regulating nature protection and landscape conservation in Central and Eastern Europe."

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