05/10/2015
Workshop “Assessing the SEA: the effectiveness of the process on the plan choices” 14.10.2015
Within the National Operational Programme for Governance and System Actions (ESF) 2007-2013 – Action 7b – "Actions supporting the Strategic Environmental Assessment processes and the Environment Impact Assessment procedures", the Directorate for Environmental Assessments and Authorizations of the Ministry of the Environment is currently organizing the workshop "Assessing the SEA: the effectiveness of the process on the plan choices", to be held on the 14th of October at the MoE’s Auditorium
23/09/2015
Workshop “Information and transparency in Environmental Assessments” 30.9.2015
Within the activities of the 2007-2013 National Operational Programme "Governance and System Actions", the Directorate General for Environmental Assessments and Authorizations of the Ministry of the Environment has scheduled a workshop on the topics of information and transparency in SEA and EIA processes, that will take place in Rome (Auditoriom of the MoE) on the 30th of September.
05/08/2015
Transposition of the new EIA directive 2014/52/EU: published the European Delegation Law 2014
The Law 9 July 2015 no. 114 "Delegation to the Government for the transposition of the European directived and implementation of other acts of the European Union - European Delegation Law 2014" has been published on the Official Journal of the Italian Republic no. 176 of 31 July 2015.
06/07/2015
European Commission has recently updated the guidance document "Interpretation of definitions of project categories of annex I and II of the EIA Directive", already published in 2008.
06/07/2015
IAIA15 – The proceedings of the Conference has been published
Available on line the proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Impact Assessment - IAIA15 "Impact Assessment in the Digital Era", held in Florence last April involving about 980 delegates from 87 nations around the world.
06/07/2015
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Italian Republic has notified to the Embassy of the Swiss Confederation and the Republic of France the start of the the " Management Plan of the Hydrographic district of the River Po. Update 2015" SEA procedure pursuant to the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.
22/06/2015
The Directorate for Environmental Assessments and Authorizations of the Ministry of the Environment, in collaboration with the Directorate for the Protection of Nature and Sea, is currently organizing the workshop “The environmental assessment and the integrated planning of natural protected areas and Natura 2000 sites”
19/06/2015
On 18 June 2015, the Italian Ministry of Environment, as provided for by Directive 2001/42/EC and SEA Protocol to the Espoo Convention on environmental impact assessment in a transboundary context, submitted its comments to the Republic of Slovenia regarding the Transport development strategy of the Republic of Slovenia together with the comments of Public Authorities and other subjects.
15/05/2015
Transboundary consultation on the "Transport development strategy of the Republic of Slovenia"
The Republic of Slovenia has sent non-technical summary in Italian of the Strategy for the development of transport of the Republic of Slovenia in addition to the documentation already submitted on 16 January 2015
04/05/2015
On 4 May 2015 the Italian Ministry of Environment submitted to the Republic of Croatia the comments regarding the Framework Plan and Programme for exploration and production of hydrocarbons in the Adriatic sea.