Implementing EU environmental law in the new member states: the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Implementing EU environmental law in the new member states: the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Implementing EU environmental legislation was viewed as a difficult task for new Central and Eastern European member states due to the technical complexity of EU environmental law and high financial costs of implementation. This article examines implementation of a particularly expensive piece of EU environmental legislation, the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD), in the Czech Republic and the country's failure to meet the end of 2010 deadline for implementing the UWWTD. It concludes that while high financial costs were indeed an obstacle to implementation, the main reason for failure to meet the deadline was not the lack of financial resources - much of the needed money was available in the form of EU structural and cohesion funds - but the Czech Republic's failure to meet EU legal and administrative standards which led to problems accessing EU funds. Thus, the explanation for implementation problems in this case has to do with both financial costs and administrative (and

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Contemporary European Studies

ISSN

1802-4289

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

5-25

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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