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Abstract of declaration: 15th meeting of Ministers of Environment of the Visegrad Group counties

15th meeting of Ministers of Environment of the Visegrad Group counties was held in Budapest, Hungary, 18.-19. Sept 2008

The Ministers exchanged their views on the environmental significance of the tax systems and different financial mechanisms. The Ministers agreed that in order to shift to the use of sustainable production and consumption patterns these approaches have utmost importance.

The Ministers proposed to exchange information on expert level on the use of economic instruments for more sustainable solutions of waste management and consumption issues including: the reduction of the volume of packaging waste (in particular the PET bottles), water consumption, problems related to the end-of-life vehicles.

The ministers also stressed that their countries will support the PET bottles refund system to improve the efficiency of recycling.

Furthermore the existing pollution fees and payments should be set up on the level in order to motivate polluters to modernize technologies.

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