ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING

environmental impact assessment and other means of assessment are applied;

environmental impact assessment in line with supranational and international regulations or other procedures for evaluation and assessment of environmental effects are applied;

environmental impact assessment as part of the preparation and implementation of any reconstruction or development project;

Environmental impact assessment forms will be required for the relevant projects of bi-lateral and regional programmes, according to Community legislation in this field.

Environmental impact assessment forms will be required for the relevant projects of bilateral and regional programmes, according to Community legislation in this field.

1.4. Works with environmental impact are works for which environmental protection regulations prescribe a mandatory environmental impact assessment.

PROTOCOL ON STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT TO THE CONVENTION ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT IN A TRANSBOUNDARY CONTEXT

General information resulting from an environmental impact assessment, if available and relevant;

` Convention` means the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.

implementation of the Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a transboundary context when signed.

(e) The fact that the activity is subject to a national or transboundary environmental impact assessment procedure.

activity with environmental effects) in accordance with the regulation governing the types of activities for which an environmental impact assessment needs to be carried out,

- it defines or envisages an activity affecting the environment for which an environmental impact assessment needs to be carried out (hereinafter:

(c) undertake environmental impact assessment for proposed activities that are likely to cause a significant adverse impact on the marine environment and are subject to an authorisation by competent national authorities;

When a hazardous activity is subject to an environmental impact assessment in accordance with the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context and that assessment includes an evaluation of the transboundary effects of industrial accidents from the hazardous activity which is performed in conformity with the terms of this Convention, the final decision taken for the purposes of the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context shall fulfil the relevant requirements of this Convention.

Any activity not covered by paragraphs 1-19 above where public participation is provided for under an environmental impact assessment procedure in accordance with national legislation.

Applying the precautionary principle, the polluter pays principle and the method of environmental impact assessment, and utilizing the best available techniques and the best environmental practices, as provided for in Article 4 of the Convention,

Bearing in mind the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, done at Espoo, Finland, on 25 February 1991, and decision II/9 of its Parties at Sofia on 26 and 27 February 2001, in which it was decided to prepare a legally binding protocol on strategic environmental assessment,

The relevant provisions of this Protocol shall apply without prejudice to the UNECE Conventions on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context and on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters.

Recognizing that strategic environmental assessment should have an important role in the preparation and adoption of plans, programmes, and, to the extent appropriate, policies and legislation, and that the wider application of the principles of environmental impact assessment to plans, programmes, policies and legislation will further strengthen the systematic analysis of their significant environmental effects,

Conscious of the role played in this respect by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) and recalling, inter alia, the ECE Code of Conduct on Accidental Pollution of Transboundary Inland Waters and the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context,

(a) Introduce appropriate procedures requiring environmental impact assessment of its proposed projects that are likely to have significant adverse effects on biological diversity with a view to avoiding or minimizing such effects and, where appropriate, allow for public participation in such procedures;

A strategic environmental assessment shall be carried out for plans and programmes which are prepared for agriculture, forestry, fisheries, energy, industry including mining, transport, regional development, waste management, water management, telecommunications, tourism, town and country planning or land use, and which set the framework for future development consent for projects listed in annex I and any other project listed in annex II that requires an environmental impact assessment under national legislation.

- environmental impact assessment and strategic environmental assessment,

(d) promote cooperation between and among States in environmental impact assessment procedures related to activities under their jurisdiction or control which are likely to have a significant adverse effect on the marine environment of other States or areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, on the basis of notification, exchange of information and consultation;

Bearing in mind the relevant provisions in the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, done at Espoo, Finland, on 25 February 1991, and the Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents and the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, both done at Helsinki on 17 March 1992, and other regional conventions,

A ` Project Preparation Facility` provides financial support for the preparation of the Final Project Proposals (e.g. feasibility studies, environmental impact assessments, etc.).

The project envisages the assessment of environmental impacts, which is of key importance for a country facing a public debate on the construction of facilities that impinge on the environment.

b) Regulatory procedures and assessment methodologies related to nuclear safety, radiation protection, quality assurance, waste management, transportation, emergency planning, environmental impact evaluation of nuclear facilities,

- data and assessments from comparable cases of already implemented global assessments or environmental impact assessments or other technical material containing data and assessments suitable for a global assessment (e.g. a study of the vulnerability of an area);

1. categories of activities for which an environmental impact assessment is always mandatory;

5. categories of activities affecting the environment for which the environmental impact assessment is necessary and other categories of environmental impact assessment (1. paragraph of article 57.);

(Assessment of Environmental Impact)

1. Assessment of Environmental Impact

Transpose the environmental impact assessment Directive.

The Conference notes that the Commission undertakes to prepare environmental impact assessment studies when making proposals which may have significant environmental implications.

2. other categories of activities and the conditions and criteria which, if fulfilled, require a mandatory environmental impact assessment; and

Declaration on environmental impact assessments

(Comprehensive Assessment of Environmental Impact)

4. Comprehensive Assessment of Environmental Impact

11. the details of the content and the methodology for the preparation of the comprehensive environmental impact assessment (4. paragraph of the article 54.);

3. categories of activities for which an environmental impact assessment requires a report containing only a particular specific analysis or partial elaboration.

(Mandatory and Other Environmental Impact Assessments)

5. assessment of environmental impact of planned activities;

on assessment of the environmental impact of Community measures

Implement and enforce the environmental impact assessment directive.

Implement and enforce the environmental impact assessment Directive.

(4) The detailed content and methodology for the preparation of a comprehensive environmental impact assessment shall be prescribed by the Minister in cooperation with the Ministers cited in the preceding paragraph.

Where airport projects are subject to an environmental impact assessment pursuant to Directive 85/337/EEC, the assessment carried out in accordance with that Directive shall be considered as meeting the requirements of paragraph 1, provided that the assessment has taken into account as far as possible the information as specified in Annex II to this Directive.