The SEA Directive only applies to plans and programmes, not to policies, although policies contained in plans are normally evaluated and SEA can be applied to policies if this is necessary.

The structure of the EAE (under the Directive) is based on the following phases:

The EU directive also includes other collateral environmental impacts, such as those relating to material goods and archaeological sites. In most Western European states this has been taken further to include the social and economic aspects of sustainability.

The SEA should ensure that plans and programs take into account the environmental effects they cause. When these environmental effects are part of the entire decision-making process, it is a Strategic Impact Assessment..

Contenido

La EAE es un procedimiento de evaluación legalmente establecido por la Directiva 2001/42/CE (conocida como la Directiva EAE). La Directiva EAE tiene como objetivo introducir la evaluación sistemática sobre los efectos medioambientales de los planes y programas relacionados con el uso del territorio. Esto típicamente se aplica a planes regionales y locales, de desarrollo, de transportes y de residuos, en el seno de la Unión Europea. Algunos planes de finanzas y presupuestarios o de defensa civil están exentos por la Directiva EAE, que se aplica tan solo a aquellos planes que la ley prevé.

EAE in Spain

Law 9/2006, of April 28, on evaluation of the effects of certain plans and programs on the environment (BOE No. 102 of April 29, 2006) regulated the application of the Strategic Environmental Assessment in its transposition into the Spanish legal system.

This law has been repealed by Law 21/2013, of December 9, on environmental evaluation, (BOE no. 296, of December 11, 2013) in force since December 12, 2013. The strategic environmental evaluation is defined in Title II, chapter I of said law. The purpose of the SEA is to fully integrate environmental issues into the plan. To do this, based on the draft plan, an assessment is made of the effects that the plan may have on the environment, to minimize the negative ones and maximize the positive ones. The most important document of the SEA procedure is the strategic environmental study, where these environmental effects are analyzed in depth and measures are established.

Andalusia coined Directive 2011/42/CE (EAE Directive), through Law 7/2007 on Integrated Management of Environmental Quality (GICA law). Subsequently, the GICA law was modified by Law 3/2015, of December 29, on Measures regarding Integrated Management of Environmental Quality, Water, Tax and Animal Health, to adapt it to law 21/2013 on basic state environmental evaluation. Practically, the EAE procedures regulated by state and Andalusian law are the same, except for the deadlines, which in the State were substantially reduced through a subsequent modification. The Andalusian environmental body has more information on its website.

Beyond a regulatory process, the SEA in Galicia tries to establish a new flexible planning framework that does not aim so much to control the final effects of the planner's proposals as to raise awareness and train towards a new way of planning that ultimately achieves with greater efficiency the final objective of promoting sustainable development.

The approach that underlies the SEA process that has been implemented in Galicia in the period 2005-2009, promotes the introduction of sustainability criteria in the initial moments of decision-making without attempting to occupy the role of the planner but rather offering and facilitating the tools and criteria so that the promoting organizations act responsibly based on their competencies.

ECLAC defines Strategic Environmental Assessment as:[2]​.

Environmental Project Book, Volume I, II and III. Policies, Procedures and Intersectoral Problems. Environment Department of the World Bank.

The SEA Directive only applies to plans and programmes, not to policies, although policies contained in plans are normally evaluated and SEA can be applied to policies if this is necessary.

The structure of the EAE (under the Directive) is based on the following phases:

The EU directive also includes other collateral environmental impacts, such as those relating to material goods and archaeological sites. In most Western European states this has been taken further to include the social and economic aspects of sustainability.

The SEA should ensure that plans and programs take into account the environmental effects they cause. When these environmental effects are part of the entire decision-making process, it is a Strategic Impact Assessment..

Contenido

La EAE es un procedimiento de evaluación legalmente establecido por la Directiva 2001/42/CE (conocida como la Directiva EAE). La Directiva EAE tiene como objetivo introducir la evaluación sistemática sobre los efectos medioambientales de los planes y programas relacionados con el uso del territorio. Esto típicamente se aplica a planes regionales y locales, de desarrollo, de transportes y de residuos, en el seno de la Unión Europea. Algunos planes de finanzas y presupuestarios o de defensa civil están exentos por la Directiva EAE, que se aplica tan solo a aquellos planes que la ley prevé.

EAE in Spain

Law 9/2006, of April 28, on evaluation of the effects of certain plans and programs on the environment (BOE No. 102 of April 29, 2006) regulated the application of the Strategic Environmental Assessment in its transposition into the Spanish legal system.

This law has been repealed by Law 21/2013, of December 9, on environmental evaluation, (BOE no. 296, of December 11, 2013) in force since December 12, 2013. The strategic environmental evaluation is defined in Title II, chapter I of said law. The purpose of the SEA is to fully integrate environmental issues into the plan. To do this, based on the draft plan, an assessment is made of the effects that the plan may have on the environment, to minimize the negative ones and maximize the positive ones. The most important document of the SEA procedure is the strategic environmental study, where these environmental effects are analyzed in depth and measures are established.

Andalusia coined Directive 2011/42/CE (EAE Directive), through Law 7/2007 on Integrated Management of Environmental Quality (GICA law). Subsequently, the GICA law was modified by Law 3/2015, of December 29, on Measures regarding Integrated Management of Environmental Quality, Water, Tax and Animal Health, to adapt it to law 21/2013 on basic state environmental evaluation. Practically, the EAE procedures regulated by state and Andalusian law are the same, except for the deadlines, which in the State were substantially reduced through a subsequent modification. The Andalusian environmental body has more information on its website.

Beyond a regulatory process, the SEA in Galicia tries to establish a new flexible planning framework that does not aim so much to control the final effects of the planner's proposals as to raise awareness and train towards a new way of planning that ultimately achieves with greater efficiency the final objective of promoting sustainable development.

The approach that underlies the SEA process that has been implemented in Galicia in the period 2005-2009, promotes the introduction of sustainability criteria in the initial moments of decision-making without attempting to occupy the role of the planner but rather offering and facilitating the tools and criteria so that the promoting organizations act responsibly based on their competencies.

ECLAC defines Strategic Environmental Assessment as:[2]​.

Environmental Project Book, Volume I, II and III. Policies, Procedures and Intersectoral Problems. Environment Department of the World Bank.