To which extent is the EU entitled to launch environmental policies? Please give examples.

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Applied Sciences Mainz (Economics), course: European Integration, language: English, abstract: 1.1 Assignment's title"e;To which extent is the European Union (EU) entitled to launch environmentalpolicies ? Please give examples."e;1.2 ComplicationThe assignment should not simply be answered by proving the fact, that theEuropean Union (EU)2 is able to launch environmental policies. Instead oneshould analyse the complex field of policy-making on the environment within theEU. Mainly two questions specify the scope of this analysis:- What are the competencies of the EU within the field of environmentalpolicy and what is the legal basis for such competencies?- With regard to the role of the Member States, in what ways do limits to EU'spolicy on the environment exist?1.3 RealizationFirst, in order to provide a basis for the analysis the forms of legislationavailable to the EU, which are mentioned in this essay and the core legal basisof EEP shall be outlined. The following analysis will illustrate in how far the EU or the Member Statesrespectively are responsible to determine environmental policy. In this contextpast examples from policy-making on the environment shall support thetheoretical elucidation. At the end a summary of the results produced by the preceding chapters and afinal answer to the question posed in the essay's title will be given. 2 The European Community (EC) as on of the three 'pillars' of the European Union (EU) isresponsible for policy on the environment.