Can the EU Sustainable Consumption and Production Action Plan Realize the Sustainable Development Principle?

Abstract

The paper describes the idea of Sustainable Development in the European Union Policy as well as in the EU environmental law. The discussion in based on the Strategy of Sustainable Development on the basis of which the concept is realized. The EU Strategy concerning sustainable development contains seven main challenges which are necessary to be fulfilled in order to achieve the sustainable development or the path leading to the sustainable development. These challenges are: Climate change and clean energy, Sustainable transport, Sustainable production and consumption, Better management of natural resources, Public health threats, Social inclusion, demography and migration and Fighting global poverty. The one which is the most interesting from the point of view of this article is the challenge concerning Sustainable production and consumption. That is why the text is based on the problem of realization of the Sustainable production and consumption—in order to answer the question if the legal measures which are adopted on the basis of this challenge can lead to that point. The legal measures which are examined are: Ecolabel Regulation, Ecodesign Directive, Energy Labelling Directive.