La politique environnementale et climatique : le rôle interne et externe de la Présidence belge
(2011) Annales d’études européennes — Vol. 9, n° —, p. 55-70 (2011)
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- This chapter analyses the performance of the Belgian Presidency in the environmental policy area, focussing on its internal and external role. First, the Presidency’s internal role has a legislative and a non-legislative component. On the legislative front, the Presidency achieved its ambitions as far as the Regulation on the CO2 limitations of light commercial vehicles, the RoHS Directive and the Biocide Regulation are concerned. However, the decision-making process on the WEEE Directive did not result in an agreement, but these dynamics seemed to be out of the Presidency’s control. At the front of the non-legislative issues, the Presidency succeeded in reaching Council conclusions on its two priorities: sustainable materials management and better instruments for environmental governance. Second, the Presidency’s external role relates to its responsibility of guiding the EU through the international climate change conference in Cancún and the international negotiations on biodiversity in Nagoya. It successfully managed to bring both the internal coordination and the external representation to a good end. As the conclusion, this chapter lists a number of factors that have contributed to the Belgian Presidency’s success in the environmental area.
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Delreux, T. (2011). La politique environnementale et climatique : le rôle interne et externe de la Présidence belge. Annales d’études européennes, 9(—), 55-70. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/28978 (Original work published 2011)