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Environment
and health strategy |
Building housing the
Environment DG in Brussels |
The
main aim of the Environment and Health Strategy,
launched by the European Commission in June 2003,
is to achieve a better understanding of the complex
relationship between environment and health and
to identify and reduce diseases caused by environmental
factors. This so-called SCALE initiative focuses
on five elements: Science, children,
awareness, legislation,
and evaluation. |
The Strategy will be implemented in cycles. One
focus of the first cycle, 2004 - 2010, will be on
endocrine disrupting effects of chemicals. Extensive
consultations with experts and stakeholders from the
environment, health and research fields in all parts
of the enlarged Europe have taken place and an Action
Plan has been published, in which a number of priority
research actions are described. It is published on
the DG
Environment website dedicated to this strategy.
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