Press Release: Environment: Commissioner Dimas sets out 2006 priorities building on momentum of landmark year 2005

Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas on 16 February 2006 set out his broad priorities for the year as the European Commission published its annual Environment Policy Review (EPR) for 2005. The Review underlined that 2005 EU and global climate change policy made a major advance and that the foundations of the next generation of EU environment policy were laid through the first four in a series of Thematic Strategies.

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European Commission: COM(2006) 70, 2005 Environment Policy Review, 16.2.06 http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/pdf/policy_rev_2005_en.pdf

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