This chapter traces the development of the European Community water policy. Against a background of a sense that action was urgent, a formal environmental protection policy was ‘constitutionalized’ for the first time by the Single European Act (1986). Community water policy entered a new stage with the adoption of the Water Framework Directive (2000) and the subsequent establishment of the Common Implementation Strategy. These changes amount to a true paradigm-shift whereby Community water policy became functionally oriented towards sustainable development and meeting the expectations of European citizens.
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de Castro, P.C. (2009). European Community Water Policy. In: Dellapenna, J.W., Gupta, J. (eds) The Evolution of the Law and Politics of Water. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9867-3_14
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