Environmental Policy and Law

Senior Level Meeting on Environmental Law 150

Les Autorités Publiques ont-elles à subventionner les Actions de Lutte contre les Marées Noires? (Henri Smets) 151

Alternatives for Coping with Acid Deposition Problems (Gregory Wetstone, Philip Reed and J. William Futrell) 155

The European Conference on Acid Rain (Armin Rosencranz) 158

Cinq Ans d'Activités du Groupe de l'OCDE sur la Pollution Transfrontière (1975 – 1980) (W. Lang) 161

IUCN's 15th General Assembly 163

Caribbean Action Plan 163

European Parliament

Commission Opinion on:

– Asbestos 170

– Reduction of Lead Additives in Petrol 170

– Discharges of Titanium Dioxide 171

– Oil Pollution in the North Sea 172

– Directives on Waste 172

– Discharge of Acid Effluent and Sewage Sludge and the Burning of Toxic Chemical Waste in Community Waters 172

New Environmental Programme 173

USA

– The New Direction 174

– Illicit Trade in Wildlife 179

China

– Environmental Protection Organization (M.J. Cockerell) 180

Japan

– Ad Hoc Group on Global Environmental Problems Created 181

France

– New Environmental Policy 181

UK

– Curb on Waste Imports 181

Cede Resolutions 182

The Environmental Law of the Sea 182

European Community

– Council Decision on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution 182

– Opinion on the Proposal for a Council Decision establishing a Community Information System for Preventing and Combatting Hydrocarbon Pollution of the Sea 184

European Parliament

– Resolution on the Economic Aspects of the Exploitation of the Seabed 183

– Resolution on UN Law of the Sea Conference 186

– Motion for a Resolution on the State of the Community Environment 186