Professional paper
Development of the Competitive Business in the Context of Environmental Legislation in Croatia
Mirjana Matešić
; 1 Croatian Business Council for Sustainable Development, Zagreb, Croatia
Sanja Kalambura
; University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica, Velika Gorica, Croatia
Dubravka Bačun
Abstract
Environmental protection has a key role in the context of crisis management. It is not just about development of the industry of environmental protection and implementation of new ways of management in innovative solutions in solving problems. Important area of improvement is also revision of environmental legislation aiming at simplification and reduction of costs of procedures for the business. This paper discusses problems of business sector in Croatia related to transposition of demanding environmental EU regulation, it suggests improvements such as simplification of special waste management systems, of environmental impact assessments processes, environmental permitting etc. The paper considers revision of environmental protection not by lowering environmental standards, but by introducing transparent and compromising models between business and environmental protection, based on sustainable development, with control mechanisms which don’t impact functioning of business sector (and its competitiveness), therefore allowing successful protection of environment and its renewable and non-renewable resources.
Keywords
legislation; environmental protection; business; sustainable development; competitiveness
Hrčak ID:
120924
URI
Publication date:
31.3.2014.
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