be kept within some limits, that the air quality is maintained, or the preservation of threatened species. This could also mean harmonization of the standards of the average workweek. Harmonization of policy goals only gives the government guidelines for action or a standard by which a member state's actions will be judged. In contrast to the harmonization of rules, the member states maintain broad flexibility to decide how to meet the policy objectives. Harmonization of policy goals only addresses the member states governments, i.e. harmonization of the amount of a certain pollutant in the air. Industries in a country cannot directly apply the harmonized pollution policy only the government can act in this case. In contrast, rule harmonization are in generally addressing the behaviour of the actors in the private sector, but the government of a country might implement the law, so it will be a domestic legal instrument.
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