REC - Sofia Initiatives: Economic Instruments: Green Budget 2

Sofia Initiative on Economic Instruments
Newsletter on Green Budget Reform

Second issue, June 23, 1998

Focus subject: EU Accession

Community Guidelines on state aid for environmental protection.
120 billion ECU necessary for compliance with EU environmental legislation in CEE?
Meeting the cost of compliance with EU Directives in CEE: The case of the Large Combustion Plant Directive in Lithuania.
Compliance costs with EU Directives: experience from Cohesion countries.
EC Communication: environmental taxes and charges in the Single Market.
Towards a new approach to taxation of energy products in EU.
Implementation and effectiveness of environmental taxes - an EEA report.
Significance of environmental and energy taxes in the taxation systems of the EU.
Economic instruments in EU environmental regulation - a report prepared for the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Book reviews

More for Less: Factor Four.

About this newsletter:

All articles of this issue were drafted and written by Tatiana Kluvankova, environmental economics consultant, Slovakia. This issue was edited by Jürg Klarer, SIEI Secretariat, REC. The newsletter is part of the Sofia Initiative on Economic Instruments (SIEI), an initiative set up by high officials from Central and Eastern Europe and approved by the 1995 Sofia Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe". The SIEI is chaired by Vice-Minister of Environment of the Czech Republic, E. Geuss. The REC is providing the Secretariat of the SIEI.

You can get this newsletter by e-mail on a regular basis and free of charge (if you receive this issue via email, you are already on the distribution list), or, view it on the internet http://www.rec.org/REC/Programs/SofiaInitiatives/EcoInstruments/GreenBudget/GB.shtml. If you wish to receive the e-mail version, please notify: jklarer@rec.org. Please, send your comments, suggestions and ideas on/for this newsletter to the same email address. Also, your contribution to the newsletter would be welcome: if you would like to submit an article on issues related to Green Budget Reform and relevant to CEE/NIS countries, please contact jklarer@rec.org.

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REC * PROGRAMS * SOFIA INITIATIVES * ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS * GREEN BUDGET * JUNE 23, 1998

Contents

Focus subject: EU Accession

Book reviews