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ESPON and Territorial Impact Assessment (EATIA)

ESPON and Territorial Impact Assessment (EATIA). Gödöllő , 22 June 2011 Thomas B Fischer and Tom Gore, University of Liverpool. Background.

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ESPON and Territorial Impact Assessment (EATIA)

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  1. ESPON and Territorial Impact Assessment (EATIA) Gödöllő, 22 June 2011 Thomas B Fischer and Tom Gore, University of Liverpool

  2. Background • EU policies/directives (including those on energy) can have differing impacts on different parts of the EU territory that can easily be overlooked. These can include those on spatial usage, governance or on wider environmental, social and economic aspects, and can be both, positive and negative. • Since 2003, the EC has undertaken impact assessment (IA) of most of its policy/directive proposals, but making reliable predictions at this level of decision-making is notoriously difficult, particularly as impacts normally vary quite substantially across Europe and may depend in particular on the unique characteristics of a specific region or locality. • TIA is an ex-ante assessment instrument for identifying and evaluating impacts of EU policies/directives. To date, TIA efforts have been on devising technical models predicting impacts of policies on ‘space’; this project broadens the scope of possible applications of TIA to consider more participatory assessment processes for involving various other levels (national, regional and local) in TIA of EU policies/directives. • . Slide 1

  3. TIA development criteria • EATIA seeks to support and build from existing work on TIA (TEQUILA, TIPTAP, ARTS...) to develop a ‘policy maker friendly’ approach: • An ex-ante assessment tool applicable within the preparation (and transposition) process of EU directives and possibly other policy; • Embedded at the Member State level, enabling policy-makers and practitioners to anticipate EU policy impacts and so to influence those policies (integrated with eg [regulatory] impact assessment); • Focus on impacts at national, regional [and local] levels; stakeholders are ministries responsible for spatial planning in the UK, Portugal and Slovenia (project partners are universities of Liverpool, Lisbon, Bratislava and Delft); • The approach of the project is to develop an instrument which is both, simple and flexible (‘policy maker friendly’) and which does not lead to delays in policy making due to heavy data requirements; • Should not introduce new formal assessment obligations as in e.g. EIA and SEA. • Essentially, a tool that can help ensure that EU policy making (including in the energy field) is sensitive to the spatial dimension – impacts often differ depending on where they take place Slide 1.25

  4. Scientific Approach Slide 1.5

  5. Screening The TIA framework / how to do it… • Three main aspects of TIA framework • Governance • Methods • Process • Methodological (+ governance aspects) • Screening matrix (eg national body allocating draft directives to govdpmts) • Scoping matrix (eg government department) • Assessment matrix (eg regional or local administration) Methodological Slide 1.75

  6. How to do it… • Testing the instrument, using various directives; • Habitats • Seveso II • Renewable Energy... Slide 2

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