Translation of "Umweltschutzkosten" in English

If environmental requirements are to be taken into account in the long term, prices must accurately reflect costs and environmental protection costs must be fully internalised.

Thus any difference in environmental costs may well be at least partly offset by a more efficient production process.

The Community industry also submitted that an allocation for environmental protection costs comparable to those incurred by the Community producers should also be factored into the cost of production calculations.

As this was found to be the case for both of the applicants, no adjustment was warranted for environmental costs.

According to the French authorities, these measures were designed to compensate MDPA for certain social and environmental costs incurred as a result of its closure.

They often fail to bear environmental protection costs, costs linked to observing employee rights or costs linked to the safety of goods, to name but a few.

However, we must also consider and set effective parameters for a property policy, including maintenance and environmental protection costs.

Apart from its potentially adverse effects on trade and competition, State aid generally undermines that aim because it enables certain firms to reduce costs artificially and not to reveal the costs of environmental protection to consumers.

The progress report on the fifth programme emphasises that this aim has not been realised because prices do not reflect ecological costs.

In any event, in the absence of any precise quantification of the alleged differences relating to environmental costs and molybdenum loss, the Commission concludes that no effects on price comparability have been demonstrated and no adjustments are consequently warranted in this respect.

Data on environmental costs and expenditures is indispensable for evaluating the costs of complying with environmental regulations.

Data on environmental costs and expenditures are indispensable for evaluating the costs of complying with environmental regulations.

The liability mechanism moreover has the merit of internalising environmental costs, as eventual restoration costs may be considered by, for example, insurance companies when setting premiums.

This principle aims to ensure that the cost of environmental protection is internalised by the companies and reflected in the final price of their products and that competition is not distorted by public intervention relieving undertakings from these costs.

In the SAAP the Commission announced that, in view of the necessary revision of the Community Guidelines on State aid for environmental protection, "In 2005, the Commission will start reflecting on ways and means to better address the challenges and opportunities that sustainable development creates, as set out in the Lisbon and Sustainable Development Strategies, especially with the aim of ensuring a full internalisation of environmental costs.

Since April 1997, gas prices appear to cover costs and electricity prices to cover operational costs but not yet investment and environmental costs, including those related to the decommissioning of nuclear power reactors and the management of nuclear waste.

Harmonised and comprehensive data about environmental expenditure will make for better policymaking and increase the level of protection at - maybe - lower cost.

Data on environmental costs and expenditures are indispensable for evaluating the costs of complying with environmental regulations .

Data on environmental costs and expenditures is indispensable for evaluating the costs of complying with environmental regulations .

And it is becoming increasingly clear that not only the 'pollution control industry' (a term used to describe the building and running of waste water treatment plants and municipal garbage incinerators, selling thousands of newly-developed pollution monitoring devices, producing scrubbers to cut down sulphur dioxide discharge from chimneys, and so on), but also the new emphasis on environmental improvements in the form of the rehabilitation of old buildings, the recultivation of derelict land, reafforestation, the creation of recreational facilities of many types in the countryside, are becoming a major source of economic stimulus, contributing to the creation of new employment opportunities on a broad basis throughout all the regions of the Community.

In fact the Communication provides that aid may be granted for a limited period and possibly of a degressive nature, where the immediate application of very stringent standards or the imposition of substantial charges is likely to lead to serious economic disturbances and the rapid incorporation of pollution control costs into production costs may give rise to greater social costs.

With the help of a panel of national experts set up by the Commission in 1972, the Commission is currently drawing up a draft Council recommendation to the Member States concerning the assessment of pollution control costs in industry.

Environmentally damaging subsidies, which are another example of failure to integrate environmental cost into market prices, are difficult to estimate.

In the case in point, allthe conditions set out in the Community guidelines, namely that new plant must replace old plant, that the lattermust have been in operation for at least two years before the introduction of the new standards and that the costconnected with environmental protection in the event of replacement must not exceed the cost of adapting oldplant, are satisfied.

V. stressed that energy costs and environ menul protection played an important roie in the competitiveness of companies in the sector, and that the financing by regional authorities of infrastructure construction could create distortions of competition.