ENVIRONMENTAL-POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (REPRINTED FROM ENVIRONMENTAL-POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY)

Environmental protection has become a theme of major significance. This is true for the Member States and the European Community (EC) as a whole; it is common knowledge that pollution respects no frontiers, and it is therefore essential to fight it on the widest possible scale. This article is the first installment in a four-part series that describes and explains EC projects on environmental protection.