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Considering that the EUпїЅs long-term environmental sustainability objective is among the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, this article examines how European horizontal legislation promotes products with a low environmental impact throughout their lifecycle and the provision to consumers of accurate, non-misleading and scientifically accurate information on their environmental impact. The article aims to present the legal instruments developed at European Union level to promote high-performance environ...

The Plou?nice River (the Czech Republic) has been impacted by the uranium mining in the StrпїЅ pod Ralskem area mainly from 1971 to 1987. The extreme flood in 1981 contaminated the Plou?nice River system by uranium, radium and also by heavy metals. The pollutants are now deposited all over the floodplain downstream from the mining area. Other extreme flood in 2010 caused the remobilization of deposited pollution. This paper is focused on the spatiotemporal changes of the Plou?nice River between StrпїЅ pod Ralskem ...