REC Environmental Assessment: SEA Activities

Strategic Environmental Assessment at the Policy Level: Recent Progress, Current Status and Future Prospective, by the Regional Environmental Center for the Ministry of the Environment, the Czech Republic (ISBN: 80-7212-357-2, 2005) in English (1.14-MByte, 140-page PDF file).
REC/UNDP Benefits of Strategic Environmental Assessment (2003) in English (81-KByte, 5-page PDF file) and Russian (909-KByte, 8-page PDF file)
SEA training manual for South Eastern Europe (2003) (350-Kbyte ZIP file);
Public participation and health aspects in SEA (147-page PDF file, Nov, 2001, ISBN 963 8454 99 7, on-line version only );
SEA scoping for the 6th multi modal corridor (2000)
Sofia Initiative: EIA Policy recommendations on the use of SEA in CEE and in NIS, prepared by Croatia and the REC for the Aarhus Convention, ARH.CONF/BD.17 (1998);

Strategic Environmental Assessment Training Manual
for South Eastern Europe (SEE) (2005, in English)

The Training Manual provides a flexible framework for trainings on SEA in SEE using the SEA Protocol to the UNECE Espoo Convention on EIA in Transboundary context as the main source of reference.

Module 0: Content (27-KByte, 1-page PDF file)
Module 1: Introduction to SEA (66-KByte, 5-page PDF file)
Module 2: Current legal and institutional arrangements for SEA in SEE countries (351-KByte, 37-page PDF file)
Module 3: Introduction to UNECE SEA Protocol (90-KByte, 10-page PDF file)
Module 4: Approaches to SEA (121-KByte, 11-page PDF file)
Module 5: Overview of basic applicable tools in SEA and tips for SEA practice (134-KByte, 13-page PDF file)
Module 6: Capacity development for SEA (34-KByte, 2-page PDF file)
Module 7: Practical exercise (52-KByte, 4-page PDF file)
Module 8: Examples of SEA practices in CEE (473-KByte, 42-page PDF file)

Bulgaria
• Environmental assessment of the regional operational programme of Bulgaria in English (2003) (200-KByte, 19-page DOC file)
• Manual for Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes in Bulgaria (2002) (256-KByte, 80-page PDF file)
Czech Republic:
• Assessment of Environmental Impacts of the proposed Sectoral Operational Programme for Tourism and Spa Industry, in English (168-KByte, 11-page PDF file).
• Environmental assessment website of REC CO Czech Republic
• SEA methodology for regional development concepts in English (287-KByte, 27-page DOC file) in Croatian (244-KByte PDF file) and Russian (481-KByte PDF file).
• SEA Documentation of the National Development Plan of the CR in English (176-KByte, 46-page PDF file)
Estonia:
• Presentation on Estonian SPD 2003-2006 and SEA by Kristel Kiiple, MoF, Estonia (116-KByte, 22-page PDF file)
• SEA of NDP – a single programming document 2003-2006 in English (375-KByte, 33-page PDF file) and Estonian (396-KByte, 68-page PDF file).
Hungary
• Link to SEA of regional operational programme of Hungary (in Hungarian)
• SEA for the purposes of providing the foundations for the ex-ante assessment of the Regional Operational Programme from an environmental aspect in English (2003) (604-KByte, PDF file)
Poland
• Environmental assessment website of REC CO Poland
• Review of pilot SEA for NDP Poland in Polish (184-KByte, 14-page, PDF file)
Slovenia:
• Environment and health impact assessment for the NDP 2001-2006 for Slovenia in English (160-KByte, 37-page PDF file) and Slovenian (198-KByte, 40-page PDF file).
• Expertise for the programme of inclusion of NGOs in the preparation, implementation and evaluation of the development strategy documents of the Republic of Slovenia in English (349-KByte, 43-page PDF file)
• Guidance to Public Participation in Strategic Environmental Assessment in Slovenian, (360-KByte, 27-page PDF file)
• Manual of public participation in Strategic Environmental Assessment in Slovenian by A. Keuc, Gaja, Slovenia (400-KByte, 33-page PDF file)

Hungary
• Key Challenges and Opportunities, Szentendre April, 2004

Szentendre (April, 2003)

Warsaw (October, 2001)
Szentendre (May, 2001)
Bratislava (May, 1999)

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