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The natural environment. The development of an institutional protection framework - a permanent concern of the European Union
Authors: Assistant professor Andreea STOICAN
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The environmental policy is a relatively new field in the European Union, even at
the level of the current year, 2019. Although initially it was based on the creation of
general measures programs, within which certain specific measures were adopted,
currently, the permanent existing global climate changes can no longer be ignored by
national, European or global organizations and institutions. As such, in time, especially in
the last decade, the European Union has been forced, by virtue of the principles governing
the relationship between the EU law and that of the Member States, to find solutions to the
serious problems caused especially by pollution, but also by a series of other climatic
causes. Thus, the environmental policy of the European Union is based on a number of
principles, including that of precaution, prevention, diminish of pollution from its source,
as well as that of the polluter's liability. In this regard, the present paper aims to
summarize the measures taken so far at the level of the European Union, as well as to
identify additional protective measures that will also lead to the fulfillment of the European
Union Sustainable Development Strategy.