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The ǻrst report of the RCEP was an evalua-tion of pollution problems, and listed anumber of priorities for investigation. Thesepriorities included estuarine pollution andradioactivity, which were later to be the sub-ject of reports in their own right. Altogetherthere have been 18 reports, listed in theAppendix. Some of them, such as the FirstReport[2], mentioned above, and the FourthReport[4], which looked at “progress andproblems of pollution control”, have beengeneral in nature. Others have dealt withspeciǻc substances, such as lead[5] and oil[6],or targeted sectors such as agriculture[7] ornuclear power[8].When the RCEP was still young, it wassuggested that it had two main functions. Theǻrst was to be slightly distant from the White-hall bureaucracy in order to provide indepen-dent assessment of pollution problems andpolicies. The second was to try to develop aninnovative approach and move away from policy which merely reacted to apparentproblems[1, p. 91]. The Sixteenth Report by theRCEP suggests that these parallel functionsremain the basis of its work. Current riverpolicy is implicitly criticized insofar as it isnoted that there has been “… a net deteriora-tion over the past decade in contrast to theimprovements recorded over the 20 years upto 1980”[9, p. 176].Existing government policy is questionedas the RCEP recommends:…that the Government consider with localand public health authorities whether ade-quate monitoring of private boreholes,springs and wells is being carried out andadequate advice offered to users[9, p. 178].Policy recommendations such as the protec-tion of groundwater through contaminatedland clean-up suggest priorities for govern-ment. In addition to such direct policy refer-ences, there are also more more general, long-term statements which call for sustainability,for a precautionary approach and for theimproved monitoring which would makethese possible:Future generations should have access towater resources which will allow them noless, and preferably a greater, range ofoptions than are enjoyed today[9, p. 176].Again on principles, the RCEP devoted itsentire Twelfth Report to the concept of “bestpracticable environmental option”. As waspointed out in the conclusions, this was ashift from practice hitherto:This report is different; it is concerned withthe principles and practice of pollutioncontrol in general[10].Having said that this report marked a changein emphasis it should be pointed out thatprinciples and ideas had been expounded inprevious reports. The report on waste man-agement, for example, implicitly advocatedprecaution in the following instance:求人工翻译