EU member countries must ensure that emissions into water and air are monitored and that the conditions laid down in the installation’s permit to operate are fully met (e.g. preventive measures are taken against pollution; best available techniques (BATs) are applied; waste is reduced, recycled or disposed of in the least polluting manner; energy efficiency is maximised).

‘environmentally sound management’ means taking all practicable steps to ensure that waste is managed in a manner that will protect human health and the environment against adverse effects which may result from such waste.

Without this initiative, the local authorities' agencies are likely to continue to transport their domestic waste by road.

In its first judgement against Greece dated 7 April 1992, the ECJ declared that, "by failing to take the necessary measures to ensure that in the area of Chania waste and dangerous waste are disposed of without endangering human health and without harming the environment, and by failing to draw up for that area plans for the disposal of waste and of toxic and dangerous waste, Greece has failed to fulfil its obligations under Articles 4 and 6 of Directive 75/442/EEC on waste and Articles 5 and 12 of Directive 78/319/EEC on toxic and dangerous waste".

Not only are First Nations responsible for local public service matters in the way that municipalities are in terms of roads, sewers, water systems, waste disposal, garbage collection and so forth, but First Nations governments are also the primary delivery mechanism for a wide array of essential public services that are usually delivered by much larger governments, and provincial governments in particular.

This six-year programme has been drawn up as part of a scheme to protect Montero (in the east of Bolivia, in the Amazon region) and the surrounding agroindustrial villages from flooding. The aim is to: - protect the urban area of Montero (pop. 56 000) and improve the living conditions of its inhabitants; - protect social, energy and economic infrastructure and maintain the continuity of regional and international transit (the Cochabamba- Santa Cruz road and the Beni railway line); - improve and reclaim farmland (15 000 ha) with a view to increasing arable and livestock production; - stimulate development in the programme area; - rein ...[+++]force the structures of the SEARPI, an institute set up in the aftermath of 1983's floods for the purpose of monitoring and managing works on the river.