[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Another interesting example is OSPAR, another entity we will still be party to after Brexit.

They do propose propose decisions that member states may be expected to enact into law.

Most of the lauded environmental law that the Greens and so forth lay at the EU door, is in fact from OSPAR and not the EU. Another myth dispelled.

As you have researched this thoroughly and clearly dispelled this "myth", can you let us all know which of the following EU Directives on the Environment are not in fact EU ones but are really OSPAR?

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_...s#/Environment

Pollution and Waste

The Directive 76/464/EEC of 4 May 1976 on pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment of the Community
Urban Waste Water Directive (Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water collection and treatment)
Packaging and packaging waste directive, 94/62/EC deals with the problems of packaging waste and the currently permitted heavy metal content in packaging
Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control; replaced by Directive 2008/1/EC (see below)
Landfill Directive, Council Directive 1999/31/EC of 26 April 1999
RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive ("WEEE directive"), Directive 2002/96, revised in 2006, 2009 and 2012, currently Directive 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment
Battery directive (2006/66/EC in force from 6 September 2006), Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators and repealing Directive 91/157/EEC
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (Directive 2008/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control)
Waste framework directive (Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on waste)

Wildlife and nature conservation

Birds Directive (Council Directive 79/409/EEC)
Birds Directive (Council Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds)
Habitats Directive (Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora)
Marine Strategy Framework Directive (Council Directive 2008/56/EC)

Environment - Other

Industrial Emissions Directive
Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy)
Floods directive
Strategic environmental assessment (Directive 2001/42/EC)
Large Combustion Plant Directive (Directive 2001/80/EC of 23 October 2001 on the limitation of emissions of certain pollutants into the air from large combustion plants)
Noise emission in the environment by equipment for use outdoors (2000/14/EC − ″OND″)
Implementation of a Scheme for Greenhouse Gas Emission Allowance Trading Directive, amending Council Directive 96/61/EC (Directive 2003/87/EC of 13 October 2003)
Freedom of access to information Directive, Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC
Environmental impact assessment (Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment)
2008/50/EG, air quality