Course topics:

• Development of environmental protection, institutionalisation of environmental policy. (Antecedents, 1960s, UN world conference, European Economic Community.)
• Towards a common European environmental policy. (Action Programmes I-II-III: principles, major results. Single European Act, institutional background of the common environmental policy.)
• The theory of sustainable development and its appearance in the common European environmental policy. (The Brundtland Report, UN conferences, Sustainable Development Strategy of the EU.)
• Action Programmes of the common environmental policy. (Action Programmes IV-V-VI. as tools in favour of sustainable development and against climate change. The European
• Environment Agency in service of the common environmental policy.)
• Sectoral legislation. (Noise, water, air, soil protection, nuclear energy, chemicals and industrial activities, waste, nature and biodiversity.)
• Industry and energy in EU environmental policy. (Industry and environment, energy as a resource, environmental aspects of energy production and consumption. Energy policy and climate change.)
• Financing the common environmental policy. (Direct programmes. Financing through other policies. Credits and loans of the EIB.)
• Hungary’s participation at the common environmental policy. (Hungary’s environmental accession to the EU. Hungary and the renewable energy sources.)

Aims:

Aim of the course is to introduce the history, the institutional background, the financing and the perspectives of the environmental policy of the EU.

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