Common Market Adopts Environmental Program
Associated Press
BRUSSELS —
The European Communities unveiled a six-year program to incorporate environmental protection into their economic and social policies.
Anthony Fairclough, a senior official of the 12-nation bloc, said Friday that environmental issues are no longer optional on the Common Market agenda; they have become an obligation. The program was drawn up after leaders of Common Market countries last year decided to make environmental protection a part of the bloc’s founding 1957 Treaty of Rome.
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