Commissioning, protection strategy

Government of Pakistan. 2007. A Social Protection Strategy to Reach the Poor and the Vulnerable. Islamabad Planning Commission, Center for Poverty Reduction and Social Policy Development. 

CEC, Commission of the European Communities (2006) Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection, SEC (2006)620-SEC(2006)1165. Brussels (Belgium), http //ec.europa.eu/environment/soil/pdf/ com 2006 023 l en.pdf... 

Soil chemistry and ecosystem health. SSSA Special Publication Number 52. Madison, WI Commission of the European Communities (2006) Impact assessment of the thematic strategy on soil protection. Brussels... 

Comments on the DG SANCO Consultation of Consumer Organizations, Industry Concerned and Other Interested Parties on the Strategy for Completion of the Positive List of Food and Food Ingredients to be Authorised for Irradiation Treatment, Annex of Directive 1999/3/EC, SANCO/4175/2000-rev.l, European Commission, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General, Directorate D - Food Safety Production and Distribution Chain, Brussels, 2000. Ehlermann, D.A.E. Radiat. Phys. Chem. 2002, 63, Til. 

Figure 1 Example of a testing strategy for acute toxicity, corrosivity, and irritancy. (From the European Commission, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, European Centre for Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) (1995). The Integrated Use of Alternative Approaches for Predicting Toxic Hazard. The Report and Recommendations of ECVAM Workshop 8.)...

European Commission (2002) Towards a Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection, COM(2002)-179. Commission of the European Communities, Brussels. 

Interagency Committee on Indoor Air Quality - Comprehensive Indoor Air Quality Research Strategy," U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1985. 

A strategy for dealing with pollution of water from chemicals is set out in Article 16 of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/1 iC (WFD). As a first step of this strategy, a list of priority substances was adopted (Decision 2455/2001/EC), identifying 33 substances or groups of substances of priority concern at Community level. Recently, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a new Directive to protect surface water from pollution (COM (2006) 397 final). The proposed Directive will set limits on concentrations in surface waters of 41 dangerous chemical substances including 33 priority substances and 8 other pollutants that pose a particular risk to animal and plant life in the aquatic environment and to human health. The proposal is accompanied by a communication (COM (2006) 398 final) which elaborates on this approach and an impact assessment (SEC (2006) 947) which illustrates the choices that the Commission made. 

On 2 October 2002, the EC published a Communication to the Council of the EU and the European Parliament entitled Towards a strategy to protect and conserve the marine environment (COM (2002) 539), which sets out objectives and related actions (European Commission, 2004a). The Commission Communication represents the first Step in the incremental development of the European Marine Strategy for the protection and conservation of the marine environment. The Environment Council Conclusions of 4 March 2003 welcomed the Commission Communication, endorsed the approach and the outline of its objectives and requested an ambitious Strategy by 2005. Currently a proposal for a directive establishing a Framework for Community Action in the field of Marine Environmental Policy (Marine Strategy Directive or MSD) is on the table awaiting final approval by the parliament and the Commission (European Commission, 2005). 

OSPAR (2003c) 2003 strategies of the OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, OSPAR Commission, London, 2003-21. 

European Commission, Commission Proposes Clean Air Strategy to Protect Human Health and the Environment, IP/05/1170, Brussels, 21 September 2005. 

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