OPERATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR SEA MONITORING

06/10/2023

The Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security, as part of the activities of CReIAMO PA Project LQS1 Intervention Line - Environmental Assessments, has issued operational guidelines for the environmental monitoring of plans and programmes subject to Strategic Environmental Assessment. In particular:

General operational guidelines for the environmental monitoring of plans and programmes (Art. 18 of Legislative Decree 152/2006). The document has been translated also into English in order to disseminate the methodology in other European Union countries.
Specific operational guidelines for the Strategic Environmental Assessment of municipal Master Plans.

The two documents provide a homogeneous and easy-to-apply approach methodology for measuring the sustainability of plans and programmes also considering the Sustainable Development Strategies - both national and regional - that constitute the new reference framework for environmental assessments. The guideline documents are intended to accompany the proceeding authorities in the drafting of the environmental monitoring plan and the periodic environmental monitoring reports, and the competent authorities in the assessment activities foreseen within the SEA process.

The specific operational guidelines for the Strategic Environmental Assessment of municipal Master Plans are the result of an experimental process that involved 7 Italian Regions and several Municipalities. In particular, the document:

Experimentation on SEA monitoring of municipal Master Plans summarises the main activities carried out in the experimentation and leaves space for the Regions and Municipalities to describe their experience (with real cases of application of the methodology) and the results achieved.

The documents are available in the Sector studies and investigations Section of the SEA-EIA-IPPC Permits Environmental Assessments and Authorisations Portal of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security.