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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION HAS BECOME A MATTER OF GLOBAL IMPORTANCE BUT ALSO A NATIONAL PRIORITY, THE EFFORT TO ENSURE THE QUALITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT PROVING TO BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS FOR ENSURING SOCIAL WELFARE AND ONE OF THE MOST COMPLEX EFFECTS THAT PROPAGATE IN THE ECONOMY AND IN SOCIAL LIFE. STRENGTHENING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY REQUIRES CONSIDERABLE EFFORT TO BUILD A FISCAL AND A FINANCIAL POLICY, AND TO BROADEN THE SPECTRUM OF THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO DETERMINE THE MIX OF ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS THAT CAN BE USED AND THE AVAILABLE SOURCES. DEVELOPING FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION POLICY INVOLVES NOT ONLY ACCESS TO FUNDS, BUT ALSO AN EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT IN THE FIELD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lately, the quality management has integrated more and more among its components Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). With strong roots in the foundation for sustainable development, protection of the environment, issues of social justness and economic growth, CSR raises numerous issues related to obtaining profits, business performance and firms and activities based on the quality of management. From the point of view of the last issues, the models of quality management built on the fundamental principles of quality become the foundation and catalyst for the effective implementation of CSR in organizations. This is the reason why it is necessary to investigate the extent to which quality management models provide frameworks and guidelines for integrating CSR in the management of quality and, moreover, in the management of the organization, with a clear focus on the extent to which the concept can be institutionalized and operated by the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sustainable development has been established on an EU level in the form of a strategy and some high-level political promises. However, when measured against the overall rationale and ambitions of the sustainable development discussion, EU level action towards sustainability has experienced serious shortcomings, and has evolved into a very complicated, unclear and ambiguous discussion that is of little real concern to policy makers at the moment. Particularly since the global financial crisis that began in 2008, there has been a range of new initiatives creating new pushes around sustainability - the Green New Deal discussions, UNEP's Green Economy Initiative work, the OECD's green growth work- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). Green growth and transition to a green economy is a core element of the EU's overall growth strategy towards 2020. In the present economic context, it is vital that a holistic approach to the work on green growth must be adopted and that the EU's energy, resource and environmental policies as well as development policy must be coordinated so as to ensure maximum possible coherence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]