Fresh Thoughts is working with Milieu to develop legal assessments and technical evaluations to ensure the full and correct implementation of the Environmental Directive, under Article 258 AEUV, in Member States.
The objectives of the framework contract are:
Lot 1 – the drafting of legal assessments, which analyse the conformity and/or application of national measures in relation to certain directives in the sector of the environment. The Commission will use these studies as supporting information in its function to ensure, in accordance with Article 258 of the TFEU, that the Union environmental Directives are fully and correctly transposed in the Member States. The volume and subject matter of the Directives involved may vary considerably. The sectors for which such assessments may be requested include air, chemicals, nature, waste, water, impact assessment and other environmental areas.
Lot 2 – the drafting of technical assessments of Member States’ compliance with the applicable European Union environmental legislation. Such technical assessments shall concern scientific combined with legal information on the application of Union environmental legislation, which the Commission obtains in the context of pending complaint, pre-infringement and infringement procedures or in the context of notification or reporting obligations or information produced on Commission’s own initiative. The Commission will use the technical assessments as supporting information in its function to ensure, in accordance with Article 258 of the TFEU, that the Directives are correctly applied in the Member States. The sectors for which such technical assessments may be requested include air, chemicals, nature, waste, water, impact assessment and other environmental areas.