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Brussels 30 June 2008

Integrated management and planning. Brussels 30 June 2008. ICZM. What is ICZM. 1996-1999: Demonstration programme followed in 2000, 2002 and 2007 with recommendations (EP+Council) and Communications (EC) concerning the implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management

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Brussels 30 June 2008

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  1. Integrated management and planning Brussels 30 June 2008

  2. ICZM

  3. What is ICZM • 1996-1999: Demonstration programme followed in 2000, 2002 and 2007 with recommendations (EP+Council) and Communications (EC) concerning the implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management • ICZM is a strategy for an integrated approach to planning and management, in which all policies, sectors and, to the highest possible extent, individual interests are properly taken into account, with proper consideration given to the full range of temporal and spatial scales, and involving all coastal stakeholders in a participative way. • Slow and long-term process: most national strategies developed were adopted in 2006 and their implementation is only starting. • http://ec.europa.eu/environment/iczm/home.htm

  4. Principles of ICZM • A broad overall perspective • A long-term perspective • Adaptive management • Local specificity • Working with natural processes • Involving all the parties concerned • Support and involvement of relevant administrative bodies • Using a combination of instruments In the guidance: • Process summary • CS concerning ports or estuaries

  5. GCF: SEA

  6. “SEA is a process that aims to integrate environmental and sustainability considerations instrategic decision-making” What is an SEA? European Directive 2001/42/EC "on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment“ (the “SEA Directive”)

  7. SEA plans and programmes • Plans and programmes (P&P)= • — which are subject to preparation and/or adoption by anauthority at …regional or local level or… • — which are required by legislative, regulatory or administrativeprovisions; • Environmental assessment… for all P&P • which are prepared for …,energy, industry, transport, waste management, watermanagement, …country planning or land use and which set the frameworkfor future development consent of projects listed inAnnexes I and II to EIA Directive • which, in view of the likely effect on sites, have beendetermined to require an assessment pursuant to Article 6or 7 (=SPA) of BHD Directive. Link with 6.3 ?

  8. Time and integration TWICE ? SEA Art. 6.3 & 6.4 BHD ? Twice the same ? EIA WFD Art. 6.3 & 6.4 BHD ? other

  9. SEA contents • SEA, information to be provided includes: • the relevant aspects of the current state of the environment and the likely evolution thereof without implementation of the plan or programme; the environmental characteristics of areas likely to be significantly affected; • any existing environmental problems…includingthoserelating to any areas… designated pursuant to Nature Dir. • the environmental protection objectives, established at international, Community or MS level…, relevant …and the way those objectives… have beentaken into account…; • the likely significant effects1 on the environment, including on issues such as biodiversity…, fauna, flora, water,… and the interrelationship between the above factors; • Mitigation and alternatives are considered too • (1) These effects should include secondary, cumulative, synergistic, short, medium and long-term permanent and temporary, positiveand negative effects.

  10. Integrated management approach:long-term land planning In France, a DTA may organise spatial development and environmental protection in some strategic areas. DTA will be subject to SEA in the future. Several DTA were adopted in 2006 in port areas (Seine, Loire, Gironde, …) just a few days before the obligation to undertake an SEA Other case studies ?

  11. Guidance Concept Form SEA

  12. Guidance Concept Form SEA

  13. Guidance Concept Form SEA • Based on our draft SEA-GCF: before the next WG, meeting with a sub-group composed of ENV D3, ENV B2, EIA-SEA expert group and ESPO

  14. GCF: Framework dredging scheme

  15. Guidance Concept Form Framework Dredging Scheme BUT • Maintenance dredging is different from many other types of ‘plan or project’ • it usually consists of a cycle or series of repeated dredges (recurring management) • Maintenance dredging was implemented for many years in most locations and European sites were, in many cases, designated with these operations already taking place • Recurring environmental assessment for recurring authorisation process ? Where maintenance dredging operations have the potential to affect Natura 2000 sites, it should be considered as a ‘plan or project’ for the purposes of the EC Habitats Directive, and assessed in accordance with Article 6(3) of that Directive.

  16. Guidance Concept Form Framework Dredging Scheme

  17. Guidance Concept Form SEA Based on our draft SEA-GCF: before the next WG, meeting with a sub-group composed of Morris (Nature England+Defra), Xicluna (GEODE), MINK (Euda)

  18. Maintenance dredging protocol by DEFRA Baseline document • The existing need for maintenance dredging in individual areas; • The existing volumes, frequencies and duration of dredging operations. • The precise locations of dredging and disposal; • Methods of dredging, transport and disposal, • Any restrictions imposed as licence conditions or by physical constraints (e.g. depth, tidal flow, wave or weather conditions); • Material type and chemical status (existing and historical); • The history of dredging and disposal at particular locations • Any monitoring requirements previously imposed through licences, and the outcomes of such monitoring; • Any beneficial use and sediment cell maintenance schemes, or mitigation and compensation schemes entered into; • Any other relevant information from past studies or previous applications that have possible direct or indirect links to the maintenance dredging.

  19. ..and • the interest features of the sites and their conservation objectives • the extent to which the ecological requirements of the sites have been achieved, maintained or restored since the requirements of the Birds or Habitats Directive were applied to the sites. • A clear evaluation by Natural England of the impact of ongoing established dredging activities on the sites

  20. ...benefits • «Although preparation of a Baseline Document does not in itself mean there is no adverse affect, the presumption is that most maintenance dredging proposals in line with established practice as described in the Baseline Document, will fit within the tolerance range and thus be found unlikely to have a significant effect, usually without the need for further detailed information or consideration. • It is expected that most maintenance dredges will fall into this category. • This streamlined approach will enable those proposals not likely to have a significant effect on a European site to be quickly and easily identified». (Defra, 2007)

  21. ...benefits • «Development of a sector-specific management plan for dredging and disposal is not systematic. • In fact, this can be considered as part of a wider global approach • Integrating this type of sectoral plan into a more global approach helps to limit the multiplication of management tools, already numerous in estuaries». (GEODE, 2008)

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