Chapters

• Introduction to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Directives
• Outline of the presentation
• Historical/international perspective
• Objectives of SEA/EIA Directives
• Environmental Assessments at EU level
• EU case law on EIA/SEA Directives
• Current infringement statistics
• Current investigation statistics
• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
• Revision of Directive 2011/92/EU
• The EIA Procedure prior to the 2014 amendment
• The EIA Procedure after the 2014 amendment
• Screening principles & process
• Screening – Annexes II.A & III
• Level of thresholds - case law
• Cumulative effects & "whole" project – case law
• Scoping – Art.5(2)
• Information of the EIA Report – Art.5(1)
• New elements in the information of the EIA Report – Annex IV
• NEW: Quality of the EIA Report – Article 5(3)
• NEW elements in Articles 6 and 7
• Final decision – Articles 8 and 8a
• 'Assessment' is a fundamental obligation
• NEW: Conflict of interest (Article 9a)
• NEW: Streamlining of the environmental assessments – Article 2(3)
• Information on the final decision – Article 9
• NEW: Monitoring – Article 8a(4) and recital 35
• Other amendments
• Transitional provisions Art. 3 of Directive 2014/52/EU
• Transposition (state of play 6/11/2018)
• Commission support towards a better implementation
• Implementation challenges (1/2)
• Implementation challenges (2/2)
• SEA: WHICH plans and programmes? (1/3)
• SEA: WHICH plans and programmes? (2/3)
• 'Required' – case-law
• SEA: WHICH plans and programmes? (3/3)
• Scope of Article 3(1)-(2) – case-law
• What is "screening"?
• Integration of the SEA procedure in the planning process
• Relation SEA-EIA
• The SEA procedure
• Key elements of SEA - the Environmental Report (1/3)
• SEA can address a wide range of issues
• Key elements of SEA - the Environmental Report (2/3)
• Key elements of SEA - Consultation (3/3)
• Key elements of SEA - Monitoring
• Key elements of SEA - Decision making
• Key elements of SEA - Information on the decision
• SEA REFIT Evaluation
• SEA Guidance