1. General context
Spurred on by the UN's positions on the subject and underpinned by the polluter-pays and precautionary principles, the European Union's environmental policy has, for over forty years, led to the adoption of successive programs aimed at preventing or, at the very least, reducing the environmental pressures exerted by companies. While guaranteeing their continued competitiveness, the measures taken were intended to encourage them to integrate the environmental variable into their development strategy.
For the general public, environmental protection has been part of the collective consciousness since the UN's Planetary Summit in 1992, but concerted action at international level had already been underway for two decades. From the 1960s onwards, individual countries had taken steps to curb the increase in pollution within their borders....
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