Legal provisions of COM(2008)132 - Approval of the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the 1991 UN/ECE Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2008)132 - Approval of the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the 1991 UN/ECE Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact ... |
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| document | COM(2008)132  |
| date | October 20, 2008 |
| 19.11.2008 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 308/33 |
COUNCIL DECISION
of 20 October 2008
on the approval, on behalf of the European Community, of the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the 1991 UN/ECE Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context
(2008/871/EC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 175(1), in conjunction with the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 300(2) and the first subparagraph of Article 300(3) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),
Whereas:
| (1) | On 21 May 2003, on the occasion of the fifth Ministerial Conference ‘Environment for Europe’ held in Kiev, Ukraine, 21-23 May 2003, the Commission, on behalf of the Community, signed the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the 1991 UN/ECE Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (SEA Protocol). |
| (2) | The SEA Protocol helps to protect the environment by providing for the assessment of the likely significant environmental, including health, effects of plans and programmes and by endeavouring to ensure that environmental, including health, concerns are considered and integrated, to the extent appropriate, in the preparation of proposals for policies and legislation. |
| (3) | The Community and the Member States should take the necessary steps to allow the deposit, as far as possible simultaneously, of the instruments of ratification, approval or acceptance. |
| (4) | The SEA Protocol should be approved by the Community, |
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
Article 1
2. The text of the SEA Protocol is attached to this Decision.
Article 2
2. At the same time, the designated person(s) shall deposit the declaration of competence set out in the Annex to this Decision, as required by Article 23(5) of the SEA Protocol.