19. Welcomes the early action of the Commission's monitoring and information centre planning to tackle the oil slick that has contaminated more than 50 km of Lebanese coastline; stresses the need for measures to fight pollution in certain areas and especially against the disastrous impact of the oil slick off the Lebanese shoreline; calls on the Member States and the Commission to provide assistance and a response within the framework of the Pollution Prevention and Respo ...[+++]nse Protocol to the Barcelona Convention and through the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC), which operates within the framework of the Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP);

If we're to have a direction in this country as to how we're going to act, regulate with mandatory pollution-prevention planning.

I think what's glaringly obvious in Canada, compared to other jurisdictions—the U.S. and Europe in particular, but also Asia, where Japan might be another example—is a complete lack of focus, in that there has not been a policy decision and a political decision taken to say that for certain classes of hazardous materials we are going to restrict their status; we're either going to ban their use or we're going to have mandatory pollution prevention for those classes of compounds.

3) Environment, including investments connected with waste management, water supplies, urban waste-water treatment and air quality, integrated pollution prevention and control, rehabilitation of contaminated sites and land, rehabilitation of publicly owned common areas in deteriorated urban neighbourhoods, development of urban green areas, noise prevention, water quality protection, water management, promotion of clean public transport, risk prevention, landscape planning in rural ...[+++]areas, promotion of biodiversity, protection of animals and nature protection, aid to SMEs to promote sustainable production patterns through the introduction of cost-effective environmental management systems and the adoption and use of pollution-prevention technologies;

EU legislation contains the seeds of mandatory waste prevention plans, because under the Waste Framework Directive Member States must draw up waste management plans which promote, inter alia , waste prevention.

The Governments of the Member States and the European Commission were represented as follows: Belgium: Mr Jacques SANTKIN Minister for Health, the Environment and Social Integration Denmark: Mr Svend AUKEN Minister for the Environment and Energy Mr Leo BJØRNSKOV State Secretary for the Environment Germany: Ms Angela MERKEL Minister for the Environment Greece: Mr Adamadios VASSILAKIS Deputy Permanent Representative Spain: Mr José BORRELL Minister for Public Works, Transport and the Environment Ms Cristina NARBONA State Secretary for the Environment and Housing France: Mr Michel BARNIER Minister for the Environment Ireland: Ms Liz McManus Minister of State, Department of the Environment Italy: Mr Paolo BARATTA Minister for the Environment Lux ...[+++]embourg: Mr Johny LAHURE Minister for the Environment Netherlands: Ms Margaretha DE BOER Minister for Planning and the Environment Austria: Ms Maria RAUCH-KALLAT Federal Minister for the Environment Portugal: Ms Teresa PATRÍCIO GOUVEIA Minister for the Environment Finland: Ms Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN Minister for the Environment Sweden: Ms Anna LINDH Minister for the Environment Mr Mats ENGSTROEM State Secretary for the Environment United Kingdom: Mr Robert ATKINS Minister of State, Department of the Environment - + - For the Commission: Ms Ritt BJERREGAARD Member INTEGRATED POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL The Council examined the Commission proposal, the purpose of which is to apply an integrated approach to pollution prevention and control, unlike previous Directives in the environmental field, which drew a distinction between environmental sectors (air, water and land).