R.F. Lorang's scientific contributions

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... Recent directives on integrated pollution-prevention control and water quality bear the strong imprint of subsidiarity, and may signal the start of a trend towards more flexible (that is, less harmonised) standard setting, with states tailoring controls to local circumstances. There arc, of course, some in the Commission who rue the decision to abandon the principle of regulatory harmonisation (for example, see Kramer, 1997). But as I explain in my paper (1999a), in the past the legislative reflex within DG XI has militated against a full consideration of alternative policy tools, and diverted attention from pressing problems such as implementation and enforcement. ...