Translation of "Direction des contaminants de l'environnement " (French → English) :

Contaminants Control Branch [ Environmental Contaminants Control Branch ]

Directorate 1 - Competitiveness, Environment, Transport, Telecom, Energy | Directorate 1A - Internal Market, Environment, Transport | Directorate for Competitiveness, Environment, Transport, Telecommunications and Energy | Directorate for the Internal Market, Environment and Transport

Natural Resources and Economic Development Branch [ Northern Environment Directorate | Northern Environmental Protection and Renewable Resources Branch | Northern Natural Resources and Environment Branch | Northern Economic Development Branch | Resource and Economic Development Group ]

DG Environment | Directorate-General for Environment

environmental chemical

Hazardous Contaminants Coordination Branch [ Hazardous Contaminants Branch | Hazardous Contaminants and Standards Branch ]

Definition: Disorders of adult personality and behaviour that have developed in persons with no previous personality disorder following exposure to catastrophic or excessive prolonged stress, or following a severe psychiatric illness. These diagnoses should be made only when there is evidence of a definite and enduring change in a person's pattern of perceiving, relating to, or thinking about the environment and himself or herself. The personality change should be significant and be associated with inflexible and maladaptive behaviour not present before the pathogenic experience. The change should not be a ...[+++]direct manifestation of another mental disorder or a residual symptom of any antecedent mental disorder.

endemic conditions associated with environmental iodine deficiency either directly or as a consequence of maternal iodine deficiency. Some of the conditions have no current hypothyroidism but are the consequence of inadequate thyroid hormone secretion in the developing fetus. Environmental goitrogens may be associated.

Environment teaching, guidance, and counseling

Definition: Disorders in which normal patterns of language acquisition are disturbed from the early stages of development. The conditions are not directly attributable to neurological or speech mechanism abnormalities, sensory impairments, mental retardation, or environmental factors. Specific developmental disorders of speech and language are often followed by associated problems, such as difficulties in reading and spelling, abnormalities in interpersonal relationships, and emotional and behavioural disorders.

It is a series of meetings between Commission officials from several directorates-general (but predominantly the Directorate-General for Environment) and representatives of environmental NGOs from Member States and beneficiary countries.

Key actions include: optimising the use of available measures under the reformed CAP, notably to prevent intensification or abandonment of high–nature–value farmland, woodland and forest and supporting their restoration; implementing the forthcoming Forest Action Plan including measures to prevent and combat forest fires; optimising the use of available measures under the reformed CFP, notably to restore fish stocks, reduce impacts on non–target species and reduce damages to marine habitats; and advancing implementation of key environmental framework directives and thematic strategies which reduce pressures on biodiversity, notably by ...[+++] improving the quality of freshwater, of the marine environment and of soils, and by reducing diffuse pollutant pressures (e.g. airborne acidifying and eutrophicating substances, nitrates from farm sources, pesticides).

Responsible entity(ies): Directorate-General for Environment

Business and industry are the ones with the tools and the know how to stop pollution and toxics from entering our environment.