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Bezerghianu Andreea

Dear European Parliament,

Under the right of access to documents in the EU treaties, as developed in Regulation 1049/2001, I am requesting documents which contain the following information:

I would like to know how the EU institutions guarantee the right to a healthy environment taking into account the many high buildings that were made and the lately massive pollution.

Yours faithfully,

Bezerghianu Andreea

Registre, Europäisches Parlament

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Dear Mrs Bezerghianu,
 

As a request for information, rather than a request for Parliament
documents, your request has been reattributed to the appropriate service -
CITizen Enquiries Service.

They will deal with it as fast as possible.

Kind regards
[1]Paintbrush Picture[2]Public Register webpage

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Service d'information du citoyen, Europäisches Parlament

Dear Ms Bezerghianu,

 

The Citizens’ Enquiry Service of the European Parliament (EP) has received
the request you submitted through AsktheEU.org on 24 August 2013, relating
to the right to a healthy environment.

 

The protection of the environment is an important policy area of the
European Union. The EU's competencies in this area are defined in Article
191 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union:

 

1. Union policy on the environment shall contribute to pursuit of the
following objectives:

- preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the environment,

- protecting human health,

- prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources,

- promoting measures at international level to deal with regional or
worldwide environmental problems, and in particular combating climate
change.

2. Union policy on the environment shall aim at a high level of protection
taking into account the diversity of situations in the various regions of
the Union. It shall be based on the precautionary principle and on the
principles that preventive action should be taken, that environmental
damage should as a priority be rectified at source and that the polluter
should pay.

In this context, harmonisation measures answering environmental protection
requirements shall include, where appropriate, a safeguard clause allowing
Member States to take provisional measures, for non-economic environmental
reasons, subject to a procedure of inspection by the Union.

3. In preparing its policy on the environment, the Union shall take
account of:

- available scientific and technical data,

- environmental conditions in the various regions of the Union,

- the potential benefits and costs of action or lack of action,

- the economic and social development of the Union as a whole and the
balanced development of its regions.

4. Within their respective spheres of competence, the Union and the Member
States shall cooperate with third countries and with the competent
international organisations. The arrangements for Union cooperation may be
the subject of agreements between the Union and the third parties
concerned.

The previous subparagraph shall be without prejudice to Member States'
competence to negotiate in international bodies and to conclude
international agreements.

 

The European Union has adopted numerous laws and is running several
programmes to foster environmental protection. Detailed information about
the different environmental policies and actions of the EU is available on
the following website of the European Commission:

 

[1]http://ec.europa.eu/environment/index_en...

 

New EU legislation in the area of the environment is usually proposed by
the European Commission and adopted by both the European Parliament and
the Council of the European Union. Within the European Parliament,
environmental policy is primarily dealt with by the Committee on the
Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee). More
information about the committee and its work is available on the
committee's homepage:

 

[2]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees...

 

The EP has also published a series of factsheets on all important aspects
of European environmental policy. At the following link you can find the
first factsheet "Environment policy: general principles and strategic
orientations" as well as links to all further EP factsheets on environment
policy (in the right column of the web page):

 

[3]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparli...

 

The wide range of EU activities to combat pollution is specifically
described in the factsheet on "Air and noise pollution". The direct link
to this factsheet is the following:

 

[4]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparli...

 

Relating to the environmental impact of buildings, including high-rise
buildings, a particularly important piece of European legislation is
Directive 2010/31/EU on the energy performance of buildings, which the
European Parliament adopted on 18 May 2010. You can find a summary of its
main points, which include the target that all new buildings must be
nearly zero-energy buildings by 31 December 2020, at the following link:

 

[5]http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popup...

 

Finally, we would like to make you aware that there is a dedicated EU
agency providing environmental information, the European Environment
Agency in Copenhagen (Denmark). You can find more information about its
work as well as a wide range of downloadable publications on the Agency's
website:

 

[6]http://www.eea.europa.eu/

 

We hope you will find the above information useful and thank you for your
interest in the work of the European Parliament.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Citizens' Enquiry Service

European Parliament

 

References

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1. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/index_en...
2. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees...
3. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparli...
4. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparli...
5. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popup...
6. http://www.eea.europa.eu/

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