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European
Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment
(Environment DG) |
The Environment
DG is one of 36 Directorates-General (DGs) and
specialised services which make up the European Commission.
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Environment
DG’s Mission Statement:
- To promote sustainable development, preserving
the rights of future generations to a viable
environment
- To work towards a high level of environmental
and health protection and improvement of the
quality of life
- To promote environmental efficiency
- To encourage the equitable use, as well
as the sound and effective management, of
common environmental resources
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The Environment DG plays a crucial role in setting
up and developing the Community
Strategy on Endocrine Disrupters. Furthermore,
endocrine disruption is also relevant to other policies
being developed and monitored by the Environment DG,
including the REACH,
SCALE initiatives
and water
policies. Concerning the latter, the Environment
DG has sponsored a
study on EDCs in drinking water
(
- 736Kb).
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