Translation of "Toxicologue en matière d'environnement et d'emploi " (French → English) :

environmental and occupational toxicologist

Environmental policies can affect the quality of employment.

Implementing existing legislation on waste prevention and management could create more than 400 000 new jobs[15] and the review of the waste legislation now proposed by the Commission could create an estimated further 180 000 jobs[16], while opening up new markets, making better use of resources, reducing dependence on imports of raw materials, and lowering pressure on the environment[17].

Welcomes, in particular, the HLWG’s recommendation that the EU and the US address the environment and labour aspects of trade and sustainable development; considers that the experience of previous EU trade agreements and the long-lasting EU-US commitments should be taken into account in order to strengthen the development and enforcement of labour and environmental laws and policies and promote the core standards and benchmarks laid down by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), as well as decent jobs and sustainable development; encourages the harmonisation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) standards; recognises that ach ...[+++]ieving common standards is likely to present both technical and political challenges, and emphasises that the common goal should be to ensure that there is no diminution of environmental ambitions;

There are broadly speaking two categories of barriers. Some of these barriers simply result from differences, e.g. in the regulatory approach and different social, labour, environmental, public health and consumer objectives.