Azerbaijan: Enhancing EIA and SEA

National activities:

• Awareness-Raising Event on the SEA and EIA Component of the EU4Environment Programme in Azerbaijan (29 September 2023)

• SEA Pilot (based on a real case of the draft Master Plan for the City of Ganja):

  • Kick-off event (25 July 2022)

  • Public Hearing on the Pilot Strategic Environmental Assessment for the draft Master Plan of the city of Ganja (28 September 2023) 

• Second Training Workshop on the Practical Application of SEA in Regional and Spatial Planning in Azerbaijan (15 October 2021)

• Training Workshop on the Practical Application of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in Regional and Spatial Planning (26 - 27 April 2021)

• Azerbaijani version of the video "Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context: the Espoo Convention" (2021) 

• Roundtable on the Development of Secondary Legislation on EIA and SEA in Azerbaijan (18 August 2020)

Sub-regional activities:

• Report on preconditions for establishing a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) database model in the countries of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus – key elements and recommendations (April 2024) ENG and RUS

• Second Sub-regional Workshop on the Practical Application of Strategic Environmental Assessment and Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (Eastern Europe and the Caucasus) (29 June 2022)

• Sub-regional Workshop on the Practical Application of Strategic Environmental Assessment and Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine) (26 - 27 October 2020)