ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

The contribution presents the overview on aquatic plants in relation to different environmental factors.

Aiming thereby to further the accountability of and transparency in decision-making and to strengthen public support for decisions on the environment,

Each Party shall ensure that, within the framework of national legislation, the way in which public authorities make environmental information available to the public is transparent and that environmental information is effectively accessible, inter alia, by:

(c) other relevant research, including surveys of abundance, biomass surveys, hydro-acoustic surveys, research on environmental factors affecting stock abundance, and oceanographic and ecological studies.

(a) Review the policies for and legal and methodological approaches to access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters, with a view to further improving them;

The environment situation in Montenegro will be benchmarked against the environmental objectives of the European Union, ecoremediation projects for resolving environmental issues will be selected and cooperation with regional communities will be established for integrating ecoremediation in the education system and Montenegro's development documents.

(c) Summaries of its risk assessments or environmental reviews of living modified organisms generated by its regulatory process, and carried out in accordance with Article 15, including, where appropriate, relevant information regarding products thereof, namely, processed materials that are of living modified organism origin, containing detectable novel combinations of replicable genetic material obtained through the use of modern biotechnology;

checks on compliance with the relevant environmental requirements;

the agricultural and environmental authorities and bodies to be involved, in particular, in preparing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reviewing agri-environment measures and other measures targeting the environment, thus ensuring a balance between these measures and other rural development measures.

the application of this Directive to environmental damage caused by genetically modified organisms (GMOs), particularly in the light of experience gained within relevant international fora and Conventions, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, as well as the results of any incidents of environmental damage caused by GMOs;

initial environmental review if appropriate, environmental management system, environmental audit and its results and the environmental statement;

(b) checks on compliance with the relevant environmental requirements;

have the environmental review, if appropriate, management system, audit procedure and environmental statement examined to verify that they meet the relevant requirements of this Regulation and have the environmental statement validated by the environmental verifier to ensure it meets the requirements of Annex III;

Conduct an environmental review of its activities, products and services in accordance with Annex VII addressing the issues contained in Annex VI and, in the light of the results of that review, implement an environmental management system covering all the requirements referred to in Annex I, in particular the compliance with the relevant environmental legislation.

an examination of all existing environmental management practices and procedures;

a more systematic review of the application of environmental legislation across the Member States;

provides the framework for setting and reviewing environmental objectives and targets;

reporting on the performance of the environmental management system to top management for review and as a basis for improvement of the environmental management system.

technical defects in the environmental review, or audit method, or environmental management system, or any other relevant process,

the environmental policy provides the framework for setting and reviewing environmental objectives and targets;

Review and catalogue all product groups covered by eco-labels in the EU and candidate countries.

The aim should be to consider all environmental aspects of the organisation as a basis for establishing the environmental management system.

Supervision may consist of office audit, witnessing in organisations, questionnaires, review of environmental statements validated by the environmental verifiers and review of verification report.

However, organisations which have a certified environmental management system, recognised according to the requirements of Article 9, do not need to conduct a formal environmental review when moving on to EMAS implementation, if the necessary information for the identification and evaluation of the environmental aspects set out in Annex VI is provided by the certified environmental management system.

promoting greater integration of environmental considerations in the Common Fisheries Policy, taking the opportunity of its review in 2002;

'environmental review' shall mean an initial comprehensive analysis of the environmental issues, impact and performance related to activities of an organisation, (Annex VII);

The management review shall address the possible need for changes to policy, objectives and other elements of the environmental management system, in the light of environmental management system audit results, changing circumstances and the commitment to continual improvement.

To reinforce its credibility and transparency, regular input should be encouraged from all stakeholders, including consumer and environmental NGOs.

The Sixth Environment Action Programme will be subject to a review in the fourth year of operation and revised and updated, as necessary, to take account of new developments and information.

Preparation shall include familiarisation with activities of the organisation and with the environmental management system established there and review of the findings and conclusions of previous audits.

The organisation's top management shall, at intervals that it determines, review the environmental management system, to ensure its continuing suitability, adequacy and effectiveness.

to review with the Commission towards the end of 1991, the structure of environmental taxes on energy, in order to assess the situation after deregulation and the prospects for raising additional revenue from the oil tax.

pesticides listed in Table 2 of Annex VIII are considered not to have been used if their residues do not exceed a level of 0,003 mg/kg. This level shall be kept under regular review in the light of data on environmental contamination.

An organisation that has not supplied the necessary information needed to identify and assess the significant environmental aspects according to Annex VI must establish its current position with regard to the environment by means of a review.

The Council shall annually review and assess the world tropical timber situation and exchange views on the outlook for, and other issues closely related to, the world tropical timber economy, including ecological and environmental aspects.

When establishing and reviewing its objectives, an organisation shall consider the legal and other requirements, its significant environmental aspects, its technological options and its financial, operational and business requirements, and the views of interested parties.

reviewing and regularly monitoring information and reporting systems with a view to a more coherent and effective system to ensure streamlined reporting of high quality, comparable and relevant environmental data and information.

The environmental verifier shall, in particular, investigate in a sound professional manner, the technical validity of the initial environmental review, if appropriate, or audit or other procedures carried out by the organisation, without unnecessarily duplicating those procedures.

encouraging reforms of subsidies that have considerable negative effects on the environment and are incompatible with sustainable development, inter alia by establishing, by the mid-term review, a list of criteria allowing such environmentally negative subsidies to be recorded, with a view to gradually eliminating them;

'environmental management system' shall mean the part of the overall management system that includes the organisational structure, planning activities, responsibilities, practices, procedures, processes and resources for developing, implementing, achieving, reviewing and maintaining the environmental policy;

The data in the eighth survey on State aid in the European Union in the manufacturing and certain other sectors (23) show that between 1996 and 1998 environmental aid accounted on average for only 1,85 % of total aid granted to the manufacturing and service sectors.

whereas such surveys should include inspection procedures and, where appropriate, given that under certain environmental circumstances the disease can remain latent and unobserved both in the growing crop of potatoes and in stored potato tubers, should include sampling and testing procedures;

(4) Examination of the exchange rate for the pound sterling fixed by Commission Regulation (EC) No 445/2003 of 11 March 2003 fixing the exchange rates applicable to certain direct aids and structural or environmental measures in 2003(4) indicates a depreciation of that currency.

the agricultural and environmental authorities and bodies to be involved, in particular, in preparing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and reviewing agri-environment measures and other measures targeting the environment, thus ensuring a balance between these measures and other rural development measures.

Finally the working plan should outline the services to which the scheme is not applicable, taking into account Regulation (EC) No 761/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 March 2001 allowing voluntary participation by organisations in a Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS) (2).

establishing appropriate regular internal mechanisms in the Community institutions, taking full account of the need to promote transparency and access to information, to ensure that environmental considerations are fully reflected in Commission policy initiatives, including relevant decisions and legislative proposals;

Audit activities shall include discussions with personnel, inspection of operating conditions and equipment and reviewing of records, written procedures and other relevant documentation, with the objective of evaluating the environmental performance of the activity being audited to determine whether it meets the applicable standards, regulations or objectives and targets set and whether the system in place to manage environmental responsibilities is effective and appropriate.

(4) Following the review, it is considered appropriate to prolong the period of validity of the definition of the product group and the ecological criteria, unchanged, for a period of eighteen months, in particular to allow those companies that have been awarded the eco-label to continue using the eco-label at least until the revision of Decision 1999/476/EC is completed.

The transparency and credibility of organisations implementing environmental management systems are enhanced when their management system, audit programme and environmental statement are examined to verify that they meet the relevant requirements of this Regulation and when the environmental statement and its subsequent updates are validated by accredited environmental verifiers.