Chapters

• Introduction to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Directives
• Content
• Concept of environmental assessment
• Origins and development of environmental assessment
• Concept of environmental assessment
• Origins and development of environmental assessment
• Role of environmental assessment
• Procedural steps
• Environmental assessment documentation
• Environmental asessment in international law
• Pulp Mill case: ICJ verdict of 2010
• Environmental asessment in international law
• Transboundary procedure
• Development of legal framework in Europe
• EIA Directive
• EIA Directive: definitions (art. 1)
• Basic requirements: art. 2
• Assessment: art.3
• Projects subject to assessment: art.4
• EIA Directive: procedural steps
• Screening of Annex II projects
• EIA documentation: art. 5 and Annex IV
• Consultation with environmental authorities: art.6.1
• Public participation: art.6.2-6.6, art.8 and art.9.1
• Informing the public
• General principles: early participation and reasonable timeframes
• Transboundary procedure: art.7
• Decision: art.8 and 9
• Access to justice
• EIA Directive: practice
• SEA Directive: scope of application
• SEA Directive: exemptions
• SEA Directive: screening
• SEA Directive: procedure
• SEA Directive: practice
• EIA/SEA and Habitat Assessment
• EIA and Habitat Assessment