Guidance Documents
Despite the integration of the SEA Directive, SEA guidance was restricted to a publication called Strategic Environmental Assessment of Bills and Other Proposals: Examples and Experience issued in 1995 by the Ministry for the Environment. New guidance was prepared in 2002, but never published due to a change in government. The 1995 guidance issues a six step approach with regards to the type of information that should be included within an SEA
- Formulating the problem and describing the process of the proposal and the alternatives that have been considered
- Identifying the relevant environmental effects
- Describing the extent of the likely environmental effects
- Identifying mitigation measures and monitoring follow up programmes
- assessing and weighing the environmental effects in relation to policy objectives
- A statement with the summary of the main findings
In 2006, The Environment Ministry released up to date guidance that related to the SEA requirements for plans and programmes dating from 2004. Instruction number 9664 entitled 'Vejledning om miljøvurdering af planer og programmer' replaced the earlier guidance dating from 1995. The new guide was later supplemented, in 2007, by examples of SEAs that had been conducted.
Read more about this topic: Strategic Environmental Assessment (Denmark), Initial Administrative Order
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