The Environmental Dimensions of Deregulation

Collier, Ute

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“…It has been argued above that in the early 1990s the notions of sustainable development and subsidiarity have forcefully entered the debate about environmental policy-making in Europe (Wilkinson 1997;Collier 1997Collier , 1998Flynn 1999;Maier 2000). Furthermore, with the growing dissatisfaction with 'top-down' regulation and the concomitant pressure for deregulation and a market-based approach to environmental policy (Collier 1998;Golub 1998), it has been shown that the Commission reflected these 'policy frames' in its Third, in its Fourth but, in particular, in its Fifth EAP.…”

Section: The Operational Level: What Does the Commission Propose?mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Furthermore, with the growing dissatisfaction with 'top-down' regulation and the concomitant pressure for deregulation and a market-based approach to environmental policy (Collier 1998;Golub 1998), it has been shown that the Commission reflected these 'policy frames' in its Third, in its Fourth but, in particular, in its Fifth EAP. Hence, the following expectation can be derived with regard to the proposals the Commission would initiate in the period following the Fifth EAP.…”

Section: The Operational Level: What Does the Commission Propose?mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Furthermore, the implementation and enforcement problems, which continue to be a major problem in Community environmental policy, are difficult to solve given the costs of monitoring and enforcing targets set by regulatory measures (Collier 1997(Collier , 1998. In consequence, deregulatory and self-regulatory policies were considered increasingly attractive as a means of tackling the alleged economic inefficiency, ineffectiveness and costliness of monitoring and enforcement inherent in the 'command and control' approach.…”

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“…Most importantly, both the effectiveness of state intervention and economic efficiency of 'old style' regulation were strongly questioned by proponents of 'deregulatory' policies. In the light of the prevalent deregulation and market-doctrine in many EU countries, 'command and control' policies were viewed with increased scepticism (Collier 1997(Collier , 1998 reflecting the almost hegemonic power of the 'competitiveness' frame (Mazey and Richardson 1998). According to proponents of economic efficiency in the environmental field, 'command and control' policies 'tend towards economic inefficiency by imposing uniform reduction targets and technologies which ignore the variable pollution abatement costs facing individual firms.…”

Section: The Alleged Failure Of 'Old Style' Regulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A second goal is to highlight the factors which might make any major shift in the European policy style difficult to achieve (see, for example , Collier 1998;Golub 1998;Wissenburg, Orhan and Collier 1999;Jordan, Wurzel and Zito 2000). By focusing on the level of Community policy-making, we attempt to test the generally accepted claim that 'old style' regulatory or 'command and control' instruments are being gradually replaced by 'new style' regulation in proposed EU environmental policy legislation.…”

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Richardson

2003

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In this article, we address two main questions. First, we ask whether the alleged shift in the Commission's environmental ‘policy style’ from a traditional regulatory style towards a new style based on less impositional, more market‐based and co‐operative instruments has actually occurred in practice. We seek to answer this question (a) by employing content analysis to assess the policy instruments propagated by the Commission in both the Fourth and Fifth Environmental Action Programmes (EAP); and (b) by analysing legislative proposals introduced by the Commission in designated environmental policy fields (atmospheric pollution, waste, water). On the basis of the findings we argue that there is a discrepancy between what the Commission declares in the EAPs and what it proposes in practice. Moreover, in a second step, we highlight the factors which might make any major shift in the Commission's policy style difficult to achieve in order to account for this discrepancy.

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Guzman³

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Schäfer

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When scrutinising the literature on EU environmental policy, it becomes apparent that there has been a comprehensive transition in underlying governance ideas during the last two decades. At the core of these changes is the abolition of traditional patterns of interventionist command-and-control regulation in favour of economic instruments and 'context-oriented' governance. In view of these developments, this article has two objectives: first, it looks into which causes and factors initiated these discussions; second, it analyses the effects these reform ideas had on actual patterns of governance. As will be shown, changes in governance ideas are only partially expressed in changes in policy instruments.

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The Environmental Dimensions of Deregulation

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