Project name: Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment of River Basin Management Plan (2016-2020)
Client: Ministry of Agriculture
Period: 07/2015 – 05/2016
Funding: State Budget
Location: Croatia
The contractor developed the strategic environmental impact study and participated in the strategic environmental impact assessment procedure for the River Basin Management Plan 2016-2021 (RBMP). This also included transboundary consultation pursuant to the Espoo convention. In accordance with the content of the RBMP the strategic study analyses two components of the RBMP: A. Water state management and B. Flood risk management. The SEIA included also the Main appropriate assessment (impact on Natura2000). Content of the study includes:
- overview of the content and main objectives of RBMP and relations to other relevant plans, programs and strategies
- Information on the existing state of the environment and possible environment development without implementation of RBMP
- Environmental characteristics of the regions where implementation of RBMP can have significant impact
- Existing environmental problems important for RBMP
- Probably significant environmental impacts
- Transboundary impacts
- Environmental protection measures
- Variant solutions and description of Environmental impact assessment and Main nature impact assessment procedures
- Summary
- Main assessment of the acceptability of the RBMP for the ecological network Natura2000
- Recommendations for RBMP improvements
Services provided:
- Document analysis development
- Reporting
- Documentation review
- Reporting
- Measurers
- Appropriate assessment
- Data collection