Creating Incentives for Greener Products [electronic resource]: A Policy Manual for Eastern Partnership Countries /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,issuing body.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2015.
The European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) struggle with environmental challenges related to the consumption and end-of-life management of many harmful products. This policy manual considers the potential use and implementation of four categories of product-related economic instruments to address some of these challenges: product taxes, tax differentiation based on environmental factors, deposit-refund systems and extended producer responsibility (EPR).
Includes bibliographical references.
Development and implementation checklists -- Extended Producer Responsibility: Design and implementation -- Deposit-refund systems: Design and implementation -- Lessons learned from the application of product-related economic instruments -- Product taxes and environmental tax differentiation: Design and implementation -- Strategic approach to using product-related economic instruments -- Executive summary -- Foreword -- Abbreviations and Acronyms.
The European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) struggle with environmental challenges related to the consumption and end-of-life management of many harmful products. This policy manual considers the potential use and implementation of four categories of product-related economic instruments to address some of these challenges: product taxes, tax differentiation based on environmental factors, deposit-refund systems and extended producer responsibility (EPR).
Industrial management
Social responsibility of business