April 2005
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Responsabilité & Environnement
Public regulatory instruments
Issue 38
Editorial: François Valérian,
Rédacteur en chef des Annales des Mines
Public authorities: Effectiveness, control and regulation (Minutes of the seminar of 20 May 2003)
By Daniel Béguin and Virginie Rocheteau
Directeur Déchets et Sols Ademe Ingénieur au Département Prévention Recyclage, Organisation des Filières en charge de la coordination du projet "prévention" Ademe*
The modernization of waste management, which started in the 1990s, has been successful. However the assessment is less clear in terms of prevention. Since the volume of household garbage is still increasing despite these efforts, a national plan, announced in 2004, intends to stabilize the production of wastes by 2008. To achieve this, public opinion must be won over.
The economic instruments of environmental policy
By Liliane Elsen
Réseau déchets de France Nature Environnement
Better late than never: France Nature Environnement is pleased to have been heard, finally. It is taking an active part in implementing the National Plan for Preventing the Production of Wastes. It has called for a democratic debate on such an important topic. Parliament must be involved in handling an issue that entails commitments for our future.
Summary of the report by the French Commission des Comptes et de l’Économie de l’Environnement : Agriculture and the environment
After the productivistic period following WW II, the 1990s witnessed a shift of focus to an environmental assessment of farming. As a consequence, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is being reoriented so as to take into consideration environmental exigencies. This shift still needs to take into account new data about, first of all, the effects of climatic change. New limitations but, too, new opportunities for development are emerging.