Towards Sustainability

Commission of the European Communities (1992): Towards Sustainability: COM (92) 23 final – VOL.II, Brussels, 27 March 1992.

This report is divided into three parts. Part I summarises the state of the environment in the European Community and growing threats to its future health, and sets out a new strategy designed to break the current trends and to set a new course for sustainable development. It also attempts to indicate how responsibility can in practice be shared and measures proposed to ensure satisfactory implementation and enforcement. Part II summarises the environmental threats and issues in the wider international context and what will or can be done by the community and its consistent Member States in the context of both general and bilateral cooperation. Finally, part III deals with the selection of priorities and the question of costs, as well as plans for a programme review. A 5-point plan is proposed to devise appropriate costing mechanisms for the future.