ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE REVIEWS: GREECE

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DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword. 3

General Introduction 5

List of Figures and Tables . 12

Abbreviations and Signs 14

List of Team Members . 17

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. 19

1. Implementing Environmental Policies 20

Strengthening the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of environmental policies 20

Water 22

Air . 24

Nature . 25

2. Towards Sustainable Development . 27

Integrating environmental concerns in economic decisions . 27

Towards sustainable urban and coastal development 29

Towards sustainable tourism 30

3. International Co-operation 31

REPORT

1. THE CONTEXT . 35

1. The Physical Context . 35

2. The Human Context . 36

3. The Economic Context. 37

4. The Institutional Context 41

National environmental administration 41

Regional environmental administration (regions and prefectures) . 46

Environmental tasks of municipalities. 46

5. Environmental Policy and Legislation 47

Part I

POLLUTION CONTROL AND NATURE CONSERVATION

2. WATER MANAGEMENT 51

1. Current Situation and Trends . 51

Freshwater resources . 51

Water quality. 52

Pressures on water resources 53

2. Responses . 56

Objectives . 56

Legal and institutional framework . 58

Regulatory instruments. 59

Prices and charges . 61

Funding and expenditure 63

3. Environmental Performance. 64

Water quantity. 64

Drinking water. 65

Water quality. 66

3. AIR MANAGEMENT . 69

1. Air Pollution Situation and Trends 69

Emissions of atmospheric pollutants 69

Ambient air quality 71

2. Responses . 73

Objectives . 73

Measures to prevent and control air pollution. 73

Expenditure on air pollution prevention and control 78

Air quality management and the energy sector 78

Air quality management and transport 82

3. Environmental Performance. 84

Air management . 84

Integration of air pollution concerns in sectoral policies . 87

4. BIODIVERSITY AND NATURE CONSERVATION. 89

1. The State of and Pressures on Nature. 89

Status and trends 89

Pressures on ecosystems, habitats and species 91

2. Responses . 92

Objectives . 92

Institutional and legal framework 93

Habitat and landscape conservation. 93

Protection of species 96

Expenditure on nature conservation . 97

International co-operation . 98

3. Environmental Performance. 99

Protected areas 99

Species protection 100

International obligations 101

Policy integration 101

Part II

INTEGRATION OF POLICIES

5. ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC POLICIES 107

1. Towards Sustainable Development . 107

Environmental impact of economic development . 107

Economic impact of environmental policies 112

2. Instruments for Policy Integration. 114

Institutional context . 114

Use of regulatory instruments. 115

Environmental investment programming 118

Use of economic instruments . 119

Other instruments . 123

3. Environmental Performance. 125

Integration of environmental concerns in economic policies 126

Implementation of environmental policies. 128

6. SECTORAL INTEGRATION: COASTAL AND URBAN MANAGEMENT 131

1. Trends in Coastal and Urban Development and the Environment. 131

Coastal and urban development. 131

Environmental conditions 134

2. Responses . 137

Policy objectives and institutional framework . 137

Regulation of the built environment 139

Measures for environmental management in urbanised areas. 140

3. Environmental Performance. 143

Controlling land use and urban development . 143

Mitigating the environmental impact of urban development . 145

7. SECTORAL INTEGRATION: TOURISM 147

1. Tourism and the Environment 147

Current situation and trends . 147

Related environmental conditions. 151

2. Responses . 154

Policy objectives and institutional framework . 154

Measures towards sustainable tourism 156

3. Towards Sustainability of the Tourism Sector 162

Fostering implementation of recent tourism policy . 162

Integrating environmental concerns in tourism-related decision making 163

Part III

CO-OPERATION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

8. INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION 167

1. Bilateral Co-operation 167

2. Co-operation within the European Union . 169

3. Regional Co-operation . 170

Transboundary air pollution 170

Marine pollution 171

4. Climate Change and Other Global Issues 176

Climate change. 176

Ozone depleting substances 178

Biological diversity 178

Follow up to UNCED. 179

Funding international environmental co-operation 180

Development aid. 180

5. Environmental Performance. 181

Regional co-operation. 181

Global co-operation 184

ANNEXES

I. Selected environmental data 186

II. Selected economic data and trends . 188

III.A Selected multilateral agreements (worldwide) 190

III.B Selected multilateral agreements (regional) . 196

IV. Chronology of selected environmental events (1990-99) . 201