Environmental policy

Environmental policy

Policy related to managing human activities with a view to prevent, reduce, or mitigate harmful effects on nature and natural resources.

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Batch process

Environment; Environmental policy

A process that is not in continuous or mass production; operations are carried out with discrete quantities of material or a limited number of items.

The convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters was adopted at Fourth Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" ...

Basel Convention

Environment; Environmental policy

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known simply as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to ...

Safety analysis

Environment; Environmental policy

The process of studying the need for or efficacy of actions, procedures or devices intended to lower the occurrence or risk of injury, loss and danger to persons, property or the environment.

Safe minimum standard

Environment; Environmental policy

А restriction (taboo, prohibition, harvesting season) which limits the use of resources to levels that are thought to be safe, e.g. conservation of a sufficient area of habitat to ensure the ...

Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste

Environment; Environmental policy

EC Directive proposed on 15 July 1992 aiming at harmonising national measures concerning the management of packaging and packaging waste; the directive covers all packaging placed on the market.

Acceptable risk level

Environment; Environmental policy

Level of risk judged to be outweighed by corresponding benefits or one that is of such a degree that it is considered to pose minimal potential for adverse effects.