Sustainable development as an EU goal Sample Clauses

Sustainable development as an EU goal the practice In practical terms, sustainable development has two distinct elements at EU policy level: procedural and substantive. The first, procedural, aspect of sustainability is impact assessment. The 2001 SDS laid the foundation for this aspect of the EU’s sustainable development strategy. Following a 2002 Commission Communication, an extended ex-ante impact assessment must be undertaken by the Commission (and, where Member States exercise the right of legislative initiative under the third pillar, by Member States) when proposing all major policy measures.82 Completed Commission Impact Assessements are made public. This multilateral, procedural approach enables the environmental, economic and social impacts of legislative proposals to be considered, involving not only DG Environment and the “lead” DG (i.e., the DG which has primary responsibility for the proposal), but also other DGs – requiring a sustainability impact assessment for all major policy proposals.83 Pursuant to the inter-institutional agreement on Better Lawmaking of 2003, 77 I.e., the goal set for the Union in at the Lisbon European Council “to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better gobs and greater social cohesion.” See Presidency Conclusions of the Lisbon European Council, March 23, and 24, 2000, relaunched in 2005 (Presidency Conclusions of the Brussels European Council, March 22 and 23, 2005). A new cycle of the Lisbon Strategy was launched in 2008 (Presidency Conclusions of the Brussels European Council, March 13 and 14, 2008). 78 In the 2005 SDS review, the Commission recognised this stocktaking commitment had not been successful, and announced the development of a reinforced review system: “The 2005 Review of the EU sustainable development strategy: initial stocktaking and future orientations” COM (2005) 37. 79 Decision 1600/2002 laying down the Sixth Community Environmental Action Programme OJ 2002 L 242/1. 80 “The 2005 Review of the EU sustainable development strategy: initial stocktaking and future orientations” COM (2005) 37; Presidency Conclusions DOC 10255/05, Brussels European Council, June 16 and 17, 2005. The firmly environmentally modernist approach was reaffirmed in the 2005 mid-term review of the Lisbon Strategy, where the Commission stated its aim as to make, “a renewed Lisbon agenda our strategy for growth and jobs; allowing us to use the motor of a more dynamic econom...