SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Background
of the Management
Czech Republic within
SEA of Water
Plans water
and planning
Why do we need these policies?
the Role of the Public
By 2015, all rivers, lakes and also coasts in the EU must achieve good ecological
status, according to the EU Water Framework Directive.
Who really plays key role in implementation?
How do we improve performance
National level
or
Public input helps to balance environmental, economic and social priorities in
Plan of the
Main Basins
of the
Czech Republic 2007 – 2012
where
are the
mistakes
these plans
in accordance
to local condition and also present state of
environment,
which is important for future development.
Local
level
Eight River Basins Plans
Case study from the Czech Republic
„Water is not a commercial product like any other but, rather, a heritage which
must be protected, defended and treated as such.“
SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Where can mistakes hide........what is wrong?
• weak awareness of general public
• „NIMBY“ syndrome within general public
• level of view of general public
• weak public interest in participating in the
SEA process
• incomprehensibility of SEA outputs
• absence of a short general summary
• inadequate informing about public discussion
• inadequate times of the public discussion
• inadequate quality of comments reviewed
• lack of knowledge about the techniques how
the representatives of public administration
can get view or involving of general public
SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Why we have chose those examples?
• water as a medium of connecting all components of
the ecosystem
• specific measures, including a schedule and financial
instruments are determined
• real links with other regional and national concepts
such as:
Operational Programme for Environment
(OPE), the Rural Development Programme
(RDP), the Regional Operational Programmes
(ROP), Plans for the development of water
supply and sewerage
• obligatory approval at national and regional level
• the territorial extent of the concept action is not
artificially restricted by administrative boundaries, but
determined according to basin boundaries
• binding control mechanisms (monitoring and
evaluation) are set
SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Water protection goals
• prevention from deterioration in all water bodies
• achievement of good status in all water bodies
• goal-directed reduction of pollution by hazardous matters, nutrients and
organic materials
• decrease in eutrofication
• achieving goals for protected territories (in the sense of „older“ directives)
• protection of habitats and species depending on water
SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Main purpose of water management planning is to
define and harmonize public interests related to
Protection of water as a component of the environment
Flood protection and mitigation of the effects of droughts
Sustainable water use and management
SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Elaboration of River Basin District plans
1.Preparation work – 2007
3 CYCLES – 6 YEARS
2. Draft of Plan of Main River Basins – 2008
1. 2009 - 2015
2. 2015 - 2021
3. 2021 - 2027
3. Final plan of Main River Basins – 2009
Assess Water Body status
continuously
2013-2015
Monitoring
2010-2012
Implement measures
Three 6-year cycles to
achieve good status
until
2015
2021
Adopt programme
of measures
2027
2009
Propose necessary steps
Publish programme of measures
2004
Assess stresses
& effects
2006
Assess risks,
costs & benefits
Determine
objectives
2008
2007
SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Comparison of two cases studies and two different approaches
Upper and Middle Elbe
Basin District Plan
Evaluatin EX-ante
• prompt access to information
• the planning process timetable is realizable
for all partners
• the producer is responsible for the
dissemination of the information
• the rules for the dissemination of the
documents and of their updated
versions are defined in advance
• the rules for the processing of the
comments submitted are defined
in advance
Upper Vltava Basin District
Plan
Evaluatin EX-post
• bad access to information during
preparation of policy draft
• no rules set up for processing the
comments
• weak interest of general public
as well as weak awareness of general
public
SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Upper and Middle Elbe
Basin District Plan
ACTIVITY
Stage 1 – Preliminary work
Upper Vltava Basin
District Plan
START
END
January 3, 2005
December 31, 2007
May 2, 2005
October 31, 2006
Timetable and work program (TWP)
Submitting the TWP to the public to comment
upon (6 months)
and start SEA process
January 1, 2006
June 30, 2006
Submitting the TWP to the central water
authorities and the Ministry for Regional
Development for their
August 1, 2006
August 31, 2006
Submitting the TWP for approval to the regional
authorities
October 1, 2006
October 31, 2006
January 3, 2005
March 31, 2007
Summary reports on the results of preliminary
work (hereinafter the “Summary report”)
March 1, 2007
March 31, 2007
Interim list of water management issues
(WMI)
September 1, 2005
December 31, 2007
Submitting the WMI interim list and the summary
report to the public for comments , public
hearing
April 1, 2007
September 30, 2007
November 1, 2007
November 30, 2007
Submitting the WMI and the preliminary work
result sheet for approval to the regional
authorities,
December 1, 2007
December 31, 2007
Preparing the SEA announcement
January 1, 2007
September 30, 2007
Further characterization – evaluation of
effects and their impacts on surface water
bodies (SWB)and ground water bodies (GWB)
Submitting the WMI interim list to the central
water authorities and the Ministry for Regional
Development for their opinions
Without cooperation with
SEA team
Without public hearing
SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
Upper and Middle Elbe
Basin District Plan
Announcing the conception, release,
and inquiry
Upper Vltava Basin
District Plan
October 1, 2007
November 15, 2007
June 1, 2005
July 4, 2009
January 3, 2006
April 30, 2008
May 1, 2008
June 30, 2008
July 1, 2008
December 31, 2008
July 1, 2008
May 2, 2009
Submitting the finished RBMP draft to
the central water authorities and the
Ministry for Regional Development for
their remarks,
February 15, 2009
March 15, 2009
Submitting the finished RBMP draft to
the regional authorities,
April 1, 2009
April 30, 2009
Handing over the approved RBMP and
SEA
May 3, 2009
July 6, 2009
Stage 3 – Final RBMP draft
July 6, 2009
December 31, 2009
Preparation of final RBMP draft
Submitting the RBMP draft to regional
councils for approval
July 6, 2009
July 31, 2009
August 1, 2009
November 1, 2009
Publishing the approved RBMP
November 2, 2009
December 22, 2009
Stage 2 – River Basin Management
Plan draft (RBMP draft)
Preparing the RBMP
Submitting of the RBMP draft to the
regional authorities for approval,
Submitting the RBMP draft to the
public for comments
Preparing SEA public hearing
February 2008
Without public hearing
Without public hearing
SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
in numbers
There were notHighlights
published reports
of working committees
Members of the working committees were not chose from the general
Upper Vltava Basin
Upper and public
Middle Elbe
There were not extra
hearing
byPlan
law
District
BasinPublic
District
Plan only as required
There were not published preliminary results of work
No cooperation
with the local press
Evaluatin EX-ante
Evaluatin EX-post
Total number
of comments
1235
Comments from NGO
and general public
387
Total number of participants
within SEA process
963
Total number
of comments
107
Comments from NGO
and general public
32
Total number of participants
within SEA process
31
SEA Implementation and Practice: Making an Impact? 21st – 23rd September 2011, Prague, Czech Republic
How to correct mistakes........or to prevent them?
• central Information System
• stronger and more effective use of media
• preventive spreading of concept drafts
as well as draft of outputs of SEA
• streamlining of public discussion
•gradual evolution of Czech society in term of
more environmentally friendly thinking and
also behavior
•efficient cooperation of all stakeholders of SEA
• well working NGO in field of environment
• the public must realize their share in
decision making and final outputs
Public participation extends to all water users, to non-governmental
organisations, such as local and national environmental groups, and to
other stakeholders. Key organisations and citizens groups likely to be
affected by the plan need to be involved.