Objectives
As mentioned earlier, the main objective of the Act was to provide the protection and improvement of environment and for matters connected therewith. Other objectives of implementation of the EPA are:
- To implement the decisions made at the UN Conference on Human Environment held at Stockholm in June, 1972.
- To enact a general law on the areas of environmental protection which were left uncovered by existing laws. The existing laws were more specific in nature and concentrated on a more specific type of pollution and specific categories of hazardous substances rather than on general problems that chiefly caused major environmental hazards.
- To co-ordinate activities of the various regulatory agencies under the existing laws
- To provide for the creation of an authority or authorities for environmental protection
- To provide a deterrent punishment to those who endanger human environment, safety and health
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