OEGD-EEC adopt environmental objectives

Abstract

The state of the global environment came in for its periodic review recently by the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development in Paris. There, environmental ministers from the 24 OECD member countries, together with their counterparts from the European Economic Community as a collective body and from Yugoslavia, held a threeday meeting in June, the third such gathering since 1974. Huguette Bouchardeau, France's Minister of the Environment, who chaired the meeting, acknowledges, We can't impose rules or regulations on one another in the same way that [EEC] can adopt regulations that become law throughout its member countries. On the other hand, through OECD, We are making decisions as to what kind of [environmental] objectives we wish to attain, she asserts. Inevitably, key issues of international concern like acid rain, hazardous waste shipments, and explosions at chemical plants such as have occurred at Bhopal, India, and Seveso, Italy, were among the topics of discussion. But other ...