L’histoire des politiques environnementales européennes

Intervention de Jan-Henrik MEYER, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Frankfurt, discutée par Mauve Carbonell :

This contribution draws on my research on the origins and development of the early history of European Law and Policy, which started with the First Environmental Action Programme of 1973. It encompasses several case studies of policy and law-making projects ranging from common standards for bathing water to the protection of migrant birds, and from instruments like the polluter pays principle to environmental impact assessment. The goal of this paper is to draw out continuity and change, in terms of priorities and issues, the involvement of different actors within and beyond the European institutions, the borrowing of ideas and solutions from outside, and the growing challenge of making environmental law actually work. The paper will seek to explain why European-level environmental policy advanced despite a non-existent legal basis, and shapes the environmental laws in EU member states, but also why it remained fragmented, haphazard, and sometimes ineffective.

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