09/04/2013
The European Commission has prepared the Guidelines for the integration of the themes of "Climate Change" and "Biodiversity" in the Strategic Environmental Assessment and Environmental Impact Assessment.
The Guidelines represent a guidance document for Member States and for everyone involved in the process of environmental assessment and provide criteria and methodologies to address the new environmental challenges, which, in the case of the EIA, are provided as new issues in the proposed amendment of the EIA Directive currently under discussion in the European Council.
The guidelines will be explained to the Member States by the European Commission at the meeting of the Group of national experts EIA-SEA to be held in Dublin on 18-19 April 2013.