Urban Environment
Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment
The Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment 
 
   
(pdf ~65Kb) was adopted
by the Commission on 11 January 2006.
Commission
proposes strategy to improve the environment in Europe’s
cities
The Strategy is accompanied by an Impact
Assessment covering its social, economic and environmental
consequences.
The Strategy is based on the results of extensive consultations
with a wide range of stakeholders. Consultations began in
2002 with expert working groups on different issues, a large
meeting with stakeholders and research reports. See here
for details.
An interim Communication “Towards
a Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment” was
adopted in February 2004 to seek the views of stakeholders
on the ideas under consideration. Comments and opinions received
on the interim Communication
are available here.
To develop further some of the key ideas contained in the
interim Communication, expert
working groups were established in 2004 to consider technical
issues for environmental management plans, sustainable urban
transport plans and for future priorities for research and
training. An additional public consultation exercise was held
in autumn 2005. A summary of the responses is available here
(pdf ~192Kb)). Graphs
showing all responses are available here
(pdf ~2Mb) and graphs
showing responses from the private
individuals (pdf
~2Mb) and experts (pdf
~2Mb) also available.
Throughout the development of the Thematic Strategy, the
EU Expert Group on the
Urban Environment has also been consulted.
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