European legal instruments

SCALE Science, Children, Awareness-Raising, Legal Instruments and Evaluation is part of a larger European Environment and Health strategy to reduce and prevent diseases related to environmental exposures, with emphasis on exposures of susceptible populations, including children. 

The OSPAR Convention for the Protection of Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic is the current legal instrument guiding international cooperation on the protection of the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic. Work under the Convention is managed by the OSPAR Commission, made up of representatives of the Governments of 15 Contracting Parties and the European Commission, representing the European Community [30]. 

The European Communities issue their technical and administrative standards in the motor vehicle field in the form of "directives". A directive is one of the legal instruments made available to the executive of the Communities under the Treaty of Rome in order that it may perform its function. It is addressed to Member States and for them its aim is binding, while the choice of means of implementation is left open to them. 

These notified bodies have introduced a type of certificate without any legal status the component certificate, which is marked by a U following the certificate number. This document acts as a working instrument for a simpler handling of components like conductor bushings, terminal blocks or inspection windows. The notified body issuing such a component certificate herewith declares the conformity with the relevant Harmonized European Norm and the relevant type tests. Other notified bodies accept this document without asking for renewed type tests. In this way, components can be handled in a very efficient... 

Directive 259/93 of the European Union It regulates the inport of hazardous waste back to the country of origin, mostly OECD countries. This was actually an instrument to prevent waste tourism , but it is also the most important tool and the legal basis for the re-import of the obsolete pesticide stocks back to Europe... 

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