Implications of flexibility in European Community environmental law: Exemptions from environmental objectives in the Water Framework Directive

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 599, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 221-226

  Grönlund, Elisabeth ^a   Määttä, Tapio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Environmental law; Environmental objectives; Water Framework Directive

Indexed keywords

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW; ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES; WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 38849191200     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-9214-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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