Council Resolution on health and the environment
The Council and the Ministers for Health of the Member States, meeting within the Council (11 November 1991) adopted a Resolution on health and the environment. Emphasizing the importance of ensuring that health-policy aims are taken into account in Community policies, the Council and Ministers for Health invite the Commission, in close cooperation with the Member States, to take stock of the knowledge and experience available in the Member States, the Community and the international organizations regarding the relationship between health and the environment. On that basis, the Commission will be able to examine: How to gather and exchange such knowledge and experience; how available knowledge can be improved and made accessible in the framework of the health policies of the Member States; how to promote efforts to clarify links between health and environment. The Commission is invited to report to the Council on progress at regular intervals and firstly before 1994.