Council Resolution of 25 February 1992 on the future Community groundwater policy Official Journal C 059 , 06/03/1992 P. 0002 - 0002 COUNCIL RESOLUTION of 25 February 1992 on the future Community groundwater policy (92/C 59/02) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, UNDERLINES the vital importance of groundwater for all forms of life, for human health, and for safeguarding ecosystems; STATES its concern about the lowering of groundwater levels and/or the pollution of certain aquifers; NOTES that this important resource is limited, that its conservation for the future is a major political, economic and environmental imperative and that it can be exploited only in strict observance of the principle of sustainable development;
OBSERVES that freshwater management policy can be conducted only through coordinated action by all agents in the public and private sectors, taking due account of the principle of subsidiarity; TAKES NOTE of the final declaration of the Ministerial Seminar held on 26 and 27 November 1991 on the future Community groundwater policy; CALLS UPON THE COMMISSION: - to submit, if possible by the middle of 1993, a detailed action programme for which that declaration may provide guidelines, - to draft a proposal for revising Council Directive 80/68/EEC of 17 December 1979 on the protection of groundwater against pollution caused by certain dangerous substances by incorporating it into a general freshwater management policy, including freshwater protection;
REQUESTS the competent authorities and groups involved to contribute to the conservation of this natural resource in the areas under their control.