The environmental policy of EU and the sustainable development

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Article Title:	The environmental policy of EU and the sustainable development
Authors:	Jenő Borda, Ferenc Kiss
Affiliation:	College of Nyíregyháza, Hungary, 4400 Nyíregyháza, Sóstói út 31/b Institute of Environmental Sciences
Abstract:	From the beginning the EU shows emphasized attention to environmental protection. A number of different programs were prepared to improve the quality of the environment. The three fundamental environmental policy principles of EU: • ethical principle (people’s direct interest isn’t the only value) • welfare principle (the state of the environment essentially influences people’s welfare) • economic principle (the interests of the economic are stronger than the interests of the policy and environmental policy) According to the sustainable development every principle is important, so we have to develop these three equally. Unfortunately the economy practically refuses this idea. Effective intervention of the state needs the appropriate environmental conditions. The first step was to establish the environmental ministry, which initiated so called reactive environmental policy. This ministry checked rigorously the enterprises and gived serious penalties to them. In our region nowadays we use this policy, but the future is the preventive environmental policy. This is based on the self-adjusting, the collaboration of the interested parties and clean production and clean consumption. The change is very difficult.
Keywords:	European Union, environmental protection, sustainable development
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*Correspondence:	College of Nyíregyháza, Hungary, 4400 Nyíregyháza, Sóstói út 31/b, +36-42-599400, e-mail: kissfe@nyf.hu