The start-up workshop is organized by the Ministry of Environment Protection of Georgia and UNECE in the framework of the Espoo Convention capacity building and technical advice programme aiming to support Georgia in strengthening its national capacity to integrate EIA and SEA procedures into national legal, regulatory and administrative frameworks in order to join the Espoo Convention and its Protocol on SEA.
The aim of the workshop is to initiate drafting new legislation on EIA and SEA and developing recommendations to the Government of Georgia on how to fully comply with the Convention and the Protocol. Representatives of relevant Ministries, local authorities, members of the Parliament and other stakeholders, such as NGOs, consultants, private sector representatives are invited to take part at the start-up workshop.
The participants of the workshop will get familiar with:
- Existing European practice in developing EIA and SEA legislation;
- Results of the gap analysis of the national legislation related to implementation of the Convention and the Protocol;
- Findings of the UNECE guidance on enhancing consistency between the Convention and the environmental impact assessment within the framework of State ecological expertise in countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
They will further be invited to provide inputs for the draft outline of the law on EIA and SEA developed by a team of national and international consultants in Cooperation with the Ministry of Environment protection of Georgia.
The project is funded by the European Commission through the four year Programme ‘Greening Economies in the European Neighborhood’ (EaP GREEN).
| Document Title | ENG | GE | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provisional Agenda | ENG | GE | |
| List of participants | ENG | GE | |
| Report | ENG | ||
| Background documents | |||
| Report on analysis of the existing elements and gaps in the national legislation of Georgia related to implementation of the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Espoo Convention Dmytro Skrylnikov, UNECE Consultant |
ENG | GE | |
| Recommendations for developing EIA and SEA legislation, Jerzy Jendroska, UNECE Consultant |
ENG | RUS | |
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Review of legislation on environmental impact assessment of Georgia with regard to implementation of the Espoo Convention |
ENG | RUS | |
| Resource Manual to Support Application of the SEA Protocol | ENG | GE | RUS |
| General guidance on enhancing consistency between the Convention and environmental impact assessment within State ecological expertise in countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia | ENG | RUS | |
| Presentations | |||
| Day 1. Drafting a Law on EIA | |||
| Introduction to the UNECE Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention); Technical advice and capacity - building activities to support the implementation of the Convention in Georgia within EaP GREEN Programme Elena Santer, EaP GREEN Project Manager, UNECE Secretariat to the Espoo Convention |
ENG | GE | |
| Environmental Impact Assessment in Georgia - Development of the legislation on EIA: history and plans Tamar Sharashidze, Head of Environmental Impact Permits Department, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia |
ENG | ||
| Transposition of the requirements of the Espoo Convention and the EIA EU Directive into the national legislation - European experience and good practices Jerzy Jendroska, UNECE Consultant |
ENG | GE | |
| Existing national legislation of Georgia relevant to the implementation of the Espoo Convention; Current legal acts, history, previous foreign assistance in this area Merab Barbakadze, National Consultant |
ENG | ||
| Analysis of the national legislation related to the implementation of the Espoo Convention Dmytro Skrylnikov, UNECE Consultant |
ENG | GE | |
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Introduction to the envisioned process of the law drafting and agreement on the suggested process with the participants |
ENG | ||
| Day 2. Drafting a Law on SEA | |||
| Introduction to the UNECE Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Espoo Convention; Technical advice and capacity - building activities carried out by the Secretariat to support the implementation of the Protocol in Eastern Neighborhood within EaP GREEN Programme Elena Santer, EaP GREEN Project Manager, UNECE Secretariat to the Espoo Convention |
ENG | ||
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Transposition of the requirements of the Protocol on SEA and the EU SEA Directive into the national legislation: European experience and good practice examples |
ENG | ||
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Existing national legislation of Georgia relevant to the implementation of the Espoo Convention; Current legal acts, history, previous foreign assistance in this area |
ENG | ||
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Analysis of the national legislation related to the implementation of the Espoo Convention |
ENG |