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Training workshop on SEA Report, Quality Control in SEA and Final SEA Recommendations

19 - 20 September 2019
Tbilisi Georgia

The plans and programmes at the local level (in particular, spatial plans) represent an important group of strategic documents the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) should be applied to. A number of municipalities in Georgia have already launched preparation of the local spatial plans and others will initiate the planning process in the course of 2019. Therefore, there is an obvious demand for the technical assistance to ensure the local-level SEAs are conducted in accordance with the new national legislative framework. This event is organized within the “European Union for Environment” (EU4Environment) with co-funding from the Czech Republic.

The workshop will focus on the preparation of a SEA report (including relevant analyses), quality control in SEA, and preparation of SEA recommendations as the final step of the SEA process in accordance with the Environmental Assessment Code of Georgia. The training will be based – to an extent possible – on the existing SEA case (SEA of the Resort Lebarde Development Regulation draft Plan) and will build on the outcomes of the first training workshop organized by UNECE in cooperation with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture on 16-17 May 2019 in Tbilisi

Meeting objectives, expected outputs and outcomes

  • enhance capacities for the application of SEA in Georgia in line with requirements of the UNECE Protocol on SEA and EU SEA Directive, which Georgia has transposed into the national legislative framework through the adoption of the Environmental Assessment Code;
  • follow up and build on the outcomes of the first training workshop
  • facilitate the on-going SEA of the Resort Lebarde Development Regulation draft Plan.

Participants

Up to 40 staff of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture, National Environmental Agency, Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure, Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Tbilisi City Hall and other selected municipalities. 

Documents  ENG GEO
Agenda Pdf Pdf
List of Participants Pdf Pdf
Report Pdf  

Presentations

by Mr. Martin SMUTNY and Ms. Irma MELIKISHVILI, consultants to UNECE

Introduction Pdf Pdf
SEA process Pdf Pdf
Baseline analysis Pdf Pdf
Impact assessment mitigation measures  Pdf Pdf
SEA report Pdf Pdf
Quality control Pdf Pdf
SEA and decision-making Pdf Pdf
Handouts    
Lebarde resort: introduction   Pdf
Lebarde resort:draft scoping matrix   Pdf
Baseline analysis example Pdf Pdf
SEA report assessment criteria   Pdf