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 – drafting legal assessments analysing the conformity and/or application of national measures concerning certain directives in the environmental sector. The Commission will use these studies as supporting information for its task of ensuring that the Union environmental Directives are fully and correctly transposed in the Member States following Article 258 of the TFEU. The scope and subject matter of the relevant Directives 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 – drafting the technical assessments of Member States’ compliance with applicable European Union environmental legislation. Such technical assessments shall concern scientific information linked to legal information on the application of Union environmental legislation received by the Commission in the context of pending complaints, pre-infringement and infringement procedures or in the context of notification or reporting obligations, or information produced on the Commission’s initiative. The Commission will use the technical assessments as supporting information for its task of ensuring that the Directives are correctly applied in the Member States, following Article 258 of the TFEU. The sectors for which such technical assessments may be requested include air, chemicals, nature, waste, water, impact assessment and other environmental areas.