Chapter 18

Instructions

Choose your answers from a-c by clicking the radio button next to each choice and then press 'Submit' to get your score.

Question 1

What were the Kok Report recommendations on environmental policy?

a) To shift emphasis towards the economy

b) To increase spending

c) To use the synergies between environment and economy

Question 2

When did environmental policy first become an official EC/EU competence?

a) 1957

b) 1987

c) 1993

Question 3

When did the Sixth Environmental Action Programme begin?

a) 1972

b) 1990

c) 2002

Question 4

What is the precautionary principle?

a) The attempt to limit the extent of industrial regulation

b) The attempt to reduce risks

c) The commitment to act to avoid the risk of environmental damage despite the lack of scientific proof for that risk

Question 5

Which country has the largest number of Green MEPs?

a) UK

b) Germany

c) Poland

Question 6

The UK Labour Government elected in 1997 sought to reverse the preceding Conservative Government's opposition to environmental policy.

a) True

b) False

Question 7

The European Parliament is widely seen as the greenest of the EU institutions.

a) True

b) False

Question 8

In what year was the European Environment Agency created?

a) 1973

b) 1994

c) 2004

Question 9

All members of the Green G8 receive considerable funding from the Commission.

a) True

b) False

Question 10

How many bird species have increased as a result of the 1979 Wild Birds Directive?

a) 8

b) 14

c) 23

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