The league is based on ten environmental criteria, both policy and performance related.

Often organizations need to show the benefits of making decisions based on environmental criteria.

In addition, the introduction of social and environmental criteria must be handled with care.

It's my hope that we will be able to meet all environmental criteria and still accomplish progress.

Environmental criteria may then prohibit the use of the deeper systems.

As we all know, the issue of the social and environmental criteria has been much to the fore in this debate.

Instead, they say investors would do well to include environmental criteria when picking stocks.

These two directives change all that: social and environmental criteria have now been introduced.

There can be no justification for very different targets, at least with reference to environmental criteria.

We are told that sometimes social or environmental criteria are vague.

Let me now turn briefly to the second main proposal, for a new European quality category based on environmental criteria.

That applies just as much to the social as to the environmental criteria.

However, the environmental criteria that need to be fulfilled in the implementation of this project, seem to have been forgotten.

These must now be assessed against health and environmental criteria by the appropriate authorities prior to export.

"If everything works out, if the site meets all the environmental criteria, we can move forward to purchase the land," she said.

During recent years he has only accepted projects where very strict ecological, health and environmental criteria are always respected.

Before the project can start, we must make sure that the project meets stringent environmental criteria.

The organizations are demanding that more stringent environmental criteria be built into the reformed regulations.

A municipality should be entitled to take environmental criteria into consideration in the award of a public contract.

So this is an additional differentiation, based on environmental criteria, by virtue of a selective classification.

Actually, even Regulation 2078 seems to have been inspired not just by environmental criteria, but by social necessity too.

It then proposes the creation of a European quality mark based on respect for the environmental criteria for production.

Negative screening excludes certain securities from investment consideration based on social and/or environmental criteria.

Farmers' payments will also depend on how well they treat their animals and on environmental criteria.

European product standardisation must be involved to a greater extent, and services should also be made subject to environmental criteria.