Inspection of environmental conditions 1991

A comprehensive survey of environmentally protective activities (including inspections or surveillance, planning, the giving of guidelines and approvals) carried out by Danish local authorities and municipalities on pollutive/environmental conditions related to public services, companies and agriculture during 1991. Administrative details are given. The survey is based on the accounts of the inspections produced by the individual authorities. Information is given on the extent of these projects, the nature of the activities involved and the evaluation of them made by the (Danish) National Agency for Environmental Protection. In the appendices data is presented on the percentage of companies visited, the amounts of oil and chemical industrial wastes, the visited farms, the average number of domestic animals held, the nitrate content of drinking water in a number of specified waterworks, the number of objects of inspection, the number of enforcements in relation to the number of inspections and organic substances discharged from sewage works. Other related data, for example on the management of wastes, illustrate the detailed text. (AB)