That coordination of national legislative regimes should ensure a high degree of Community legal integration and a high level of protection of general interest objectives, especially protection of consumers, the environment, public security and public health and compliance with labour law , which is vital in order to establish mutual trust between Member States.

‘environmental law’ means Community legislation which, irrespective of its legal basis, contributes to the pursuit of the objectives of Community policy on the environment as set out in the Treaty: preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the environment, protecting human health, the prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources, and promoting measures at international level to deal with regional or worldwide environmental problems;

Justice and Home Affairs Start-up of Schengen Information System (SIS II) and the Visa Information System (VIS) including biometrics and the related Council Decision on the lifting of controls at the borders with and between the new Member States Initiatives on protection of witnesses and individuals who cooperate with the judicial process in the fight against international organised crime export/import licensing system for firearms Communications on the transparency of legal entities to reduce vulnerability to infiltration by organised crime the fight against illicit cross-border trafficking in restricted or prohibited goods the promotion of intelligence-led law enforcement activities across the Union Health and Safety Start-up phase of the Global Monit ...[+++]oring for Environment and Security (GMES) services on land use monitoring, crisis management and ocean monitoring Develop a Community framework for safe, high quality and efficient health services, by reinforcing cooperation between Member States and providing clarity and certainty over the application of Community law to health services and healthcare Strengthen and simplify European structures to respond to health threats, notably through the creation of a high level European network of flu officials New EU Animal Health Strategy, which will include a policy of disease prevention, improve the coherence with other EU policies, and make better use of financial resources |

It outlines the policy and legal background to the environment and EC co-financing, explains how the scope of application of the SEA Directive should be identified and how it relates to the 2007-2013 programming period, compares ex ante environmental evaluation for 2000-2006 with SEA under the Directive, and draws some conclusions about the SEA-SF relationship based on past experience.

17. Calls on the Commission to ensure effective implementation and enforcement of Community environmental legislation in the context of all projects, irrespective of whether they require Community or national subsidies in the Member States;

A detailed Opinion on the Green Paper was issued by the Economic and Social Committee on 23 February 1994, which supported EC action on liability for environmental damage, suggesting that this could take the form of a framework directive on the basis of Treaty Articles 174 and 175 (ex-Articles 130r and 130s) [4].