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- inland water management;
- improvement of dispersion of nutrients in the coastal waters; - waste water reuse
and recycling in aqua culture.
11. EXISTING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL MEASURES
11.1 National legal measures
France
This section is not complete as only a few Contracting Parties made available such
information.
- The law of May 2, 1930 relating to sites protection (Coulet, 1991);
- The law of December 16, 1964 relating to water regulation and the fight against
pollution, that concerns the various categories of water and the control of pollution
through the technique of discharge authorizations: besides, it aims, thanks to the
receipt of fees by water Agencies from polluters, at financing equipment to fight against
pollution;
- The law of July 10, 1976 relating to the protection of nature;
- The law of July 19, 1976 relating to classified installations for environmental protection
grants administration with a police power in order to fight against damages provoked
by polluting installations, especially industrial;
- The decree of November 25, 1977 relating to protection of biotopes;
- The law of January 7, 1983 on sea development schemes in order to settle
fundamental policies of protection, exploitation and coastal improvement;
- The law of January 3, 1986, relating to the coast, establishes rules aiming at the
protection of zones still spared by equipment;
The decree of April 25, 1988 relating to natural regional parks.
In addition special provisions have been adopted concerning products issued from the
lagoons exploitation. Several texts define conditions of dispatching or selling to the
consumers (decree of August 20, 1939, modified by the decree of June 12, 1969,
decisions of October 20, 1976 and of December 21, 1979).
Italy
- Norms for prevention of water pollution (Merli bill) Law May 10, 1976, n. 319 (Official
Gazette n. 141 of May 29, 1976) which concerns:
- Discipline for the effluents of any kind, public or private, direct or indirect, into surface
and subsurface waters, internal or marine;
- Formulation of general criteria for the use and discharge of waters in relation to
urbanisation;
- Organisation of public services for water distribution, sewers and water treatment.
- Formulation of a general water rehabilitation plan;
- Systematic monitoring of qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the water
bodies.
- Rules for the protection of the sea (prevention and protection of the sea resources).
Law December 31, 1982 n.470 (Official Gazette Ordinary Supplement n. 16, January
18, 1983, which concerns:
- Organisation of a sea environment protection service and coastal waters control;