Science et technologie pour la protection de l'environnement

OBS: [A programme of the] Commission of the European Communities, 1989-1992.
OBS: In relation to the matters covered by the Convention [on biological diversity], the [European Economic] Community has adopted several legal instruments, both as part of its environment policy and in the framework of other sectoral policies, [among which the] Council Decision 89/625/EEC of 20 November 1989 on a European Programme on Science and Technology for Environment Protection (STEP) (OJ No L 359, 8. 12. 1989, p. 9) ...
OBS: STEP is currently the major activity of the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics, which was established by the International Council of Scientific Unions in 1987. The goal of STEP is to advance the quantitative understanding of the coupling mechanisms responsible for the transfer of energy and mass from one region of the solar-terrestrial system to another. The program seeks to improve the predictability of the effects of the variable components of solar energy and disturbance on the terrestrial environment, on technological systems in space and on earth and on the biosphere. STEP involves coordinated ground-based, aircraft, balloon, rocket and satellite measurements. It is organized in six projects.