§ Mrs. Jegerasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what proposals made at the United Nations Conference on the Environment at Stockholm have been implemented and what agreed proposals are still outstanding.
§ Mr. MarksThe institutional arrangements established by the Governing Assembly on the recommendation of the Stockholm Conference, to which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State referred in a reply to my hon. Friend on 6th December 1977, were designed to give effect to the Action Plan agreed by the Conference. It is not practicable for Her Majesty's Government to indicate in detail the extent to which each of the 109 individual recommendations within the Action Plan have been implemented by Governments and by appropriate United Nations bodies, but we are generally satisfied, through the United Nations210W Environment Programme, with the progress which is being made. At its meeting in May 1977, UNEP's Governing Council approved 21 environmental goals for implementation by 1982, and I am placing in the Members' Library a ONFP paper, "UNEP's goals for 1982", listing these.—[Vol. 940, c. 631–2.]