| Dutch | English |
| Besluit emissie-eisen stookinstallaties Wet inzake de luchtverontreiniging | Emission Limits Combustion Plants Decree Air Pollution Act |
| bijzondere wet | special law One relating to particular persons or things; one made for individual cases or for particular places or districts; one operating upon a selected class, rather than upon the public generally. A law is special when it is different from others of the same general kind or designed for a particular purpose, or limited in range or confined to a prescribed field of action or operation |
| bijzondere wet | special law |
| door de wet beschermd recht | legally protected right A justifiable claim to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way, which is supported by law and is covered or shielded from the danger of being revoked or repealed |
| door de wet beschermd recht | legally protected right |
| financiële wet | financial law |
| harmonisatie van wetten | harmonisation of law The process by which two or more states, sometimes under the auspices of an interstate or international organization, change their legislation relevant to some area of common concern to conform their statutes and to facilitate compliance and enforcement across borders |
| harmonisatie van wetten | harmonisation of law |
| harmonisatie van wetten/wetgeving | harmonisation of law |
| MER-wet | EIA law Law concerning the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, based on the EC Directive n. 85/337 |
| MER-wet | EIA law |
| regulerende wet | regulative law |
| slib van slijpen, wetten en schuren | sludges from grinding, honing and lapping |
| Stoffen-en processenbesluit Wet chemische afvalstoffen | Substances and Processes Decree Chemical Waste Act |
| Verdrag van Wenen | Vienna Convention |
| Verdrag van Wenen inzake vroegtijdige kennisgeving van een nucleair ongeval | Vienna Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident |
| Verdrag van Wenen ter bescherming van de ozonlaag | Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer |
| Verdrag van Wenen ter bescherming van de ozonlaag | Global Framework Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer |
| Verdrag van Wenen ter bescherming van de ozonlaag | Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer |
| Verdrag van Wenen ter bescherming van de ozonlaag | Vienna Convention for the protection of the ozone layer |
| Wet aansprakelijkheid olietankschepen | Oil Tankers Third Party Liability Act |
| Wet Adviesraad voor het wetenschaps- en technologiebeleid | Science and Technology Advisory Council Act |
| Wet Algemene Bepalingen Milieuhygiene 1979 | Environmental Protection General Provisions Act |
| Wet Bestrijding Ongevallen Noordzee | North Sea Accident Control Act |
| Wet bodembescherming | Soil Protection Act |
| Wet chemische afvalstoffen | Chemical Waste and Waste Oil Regulations Act |
| Wet chemische afvalstoffen | Chemical Waste and Waste Oil Act |
| Wet chemische afvalstoffen | Chemical Waste Act |
| Wet Geluidhinder | Noise Abatement Act |
| Wet gevaarlijke stoffen | Dangerous Substances Act |
| Wet houdende regelen ter instelling van de natuurplanbureaufunctie | Act containing rules for the establishment of a nature conservancy planning function |
| Wet inzake de luchtverontreiniging | Air Pollution Act |
| wet inzake gevaarlijke goederen | dangerous goods law |
| wet inzake gevaarlijke goederen/stoffen | dangerous goods law |
| wet inzake het instellen van principeel processen tegen of uit naam van e | class action suits law Legal action initiated by a single person or a few people on behalf of a group with similar claim or claims |
| wet inzake het instellen van principeel processen tegen of uit naam van een groep | class action suits law |
| wet loodgehalte benzine | lead-in-petrol law |
| wet met betrekking tot hergebruik-/recyclingbeheer en afval | recycling management and waste law |
| Wet Milieubeheer | Environmental Management Act |
| Wet milieugevaarlijke stoffen | Environmentally Hazardous Substances Act |
| Wet olieverontreiniging zeewater | Marine Pollution by Oil Act |
| wet op chemicaliën | chemicals act |
| wet op de bescherming tegen emissies | federal law for the protection against emissions |
| wet op de CO2-emissiecompensatie | Carbon Dioxide Offset Policy Efficiency Act |
| Wet op de waterhuishouding | Water Management Act |
| wet op loodgehalte in benzine | lead-in-petrol law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by a government to reduce or eliminate the lead content in petroleum fuels used in vehicular and other engines that pollute the air with lead-carrying exhaust |
| wet op loodgehalte in benzine | lead-in-petrol law |
| Wet openbaar lichaam Rijnmond | Rijnmond Authority Act |
| wet over hergebruik van afval | recycling management and waste law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by government to establish and regulate provisions for the minimization of waste generation through recovery and reprocessing of re-usable products |
| wet over hergebruik van afval | recycling management and waste law |
| Wet tot uitbreiding van de Wet milieubeheermilieuverslaglegging | Act extending the Environmental Management Act environmental reporting |
| wet van Avogadro | Amagat's law |
| wet van de Europese Gemeenschap | Community law The law of European Community (as opposed to the national laws of the member states) It consists of the treaties establishing the EC (together with subsequent amending treaties) community legislation, and decisions of the court of justice of the European Communities. Any provision of the treaties or of community legislation that is directly applicable or directly effective in a member state forms part of the law of that state and prevails over its national law in the event of any inconsistency between the two |
| wet van de natuurlijke onafhankelijkheid | natural independence law The inviolable, moral claim of non-human organisms and their habitats to exist unharmed or unchanged by human activity as postulated by certain environmental ethicists |
| wet van de natuurlijke onafhankelijkheid | natural independence law |
| Wet Verontreiniging Oppervlaktewateren | Pollution of Surface Waters Act |
| Wet verontreiniging zeewater | Marine Pollution Act |
