After weeks of difficult internal debate…

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Series Details 05/12/96, Volume 2, Number 45
Publication Date 05/12/1996
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Date: 05/12/1996

...the Commission adopted Environment Commissioner Ritt Bjerregaard's proposal to extend the environmental impact assessments system to plans and programmes. If approved by the Council of Ministers, the scheme would require 'strategic environmental assessments' to be carried out in the land-use planning system in areas such as energy, waste, mineral extraction and transport.

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