Sometimes they may not be effective enough to reach the goals. In such cases, sector based instruments will be used to achieve national goals. Sectoral goals are based on national goals. These goals will allow the sectoral authorities a degree of flexibility in the application of environ-mental policy instruments, in order to minimize conflicts with other sector goals. Our ambitions with this management system are high, and it will take both administrative skill and political will to manage and finetune it.
Success depends on active involvement from all sectors.
In many cases extended cooperation and a new way of thinking will be necessary. Allow me therefore to express my hope that the Auditor General will take interest in the implementation and running of the system, and see to that the intentions are being met. It is my view that the market economy can promote eco-efficiency and sound utilization of resources if environmental costs are also integrated in economic decision making. Therefore, we will develop economic instruments to help integrate environmental considerations into the economy and to provide financial incentives to act in environmentally-friendly ways. Economic instruments such as tradeable emission quotas, environmental taxes, deposit and return systems and grants are all examples of this.