Resource Manual to Support Application of the Protocol on SEA
Draft Final
Links to extra resources (back to main list)
Policies & legislation
Strategic Environmental Assessment at the Policy Level 
- Recent progress, current status and future prospects, edited by Barry Sadler, 2005 (cover )
Integrating Environmental Considerations in Policy Formulation: Lessons from Policy-Based SEA Experience, World Bank, 2005, report number 32783
Cabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy, Plan and Program Proposals - with Implementation Guidelines (also in French), Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, 2000
SEA of policy in Denmark, 1996, European Commission (DG Environment)
Denmark: Guidance on procedures for environmental assessments of bills and other Government proposals , Udgivet, April 1995; and SEA of bills and other government proposals - Examples and experience, Udgivet, December 1995 (ISBN 87-601-5867-0)
Integrating Environment and Sustainable Development into energy and transport policies, a Review (2001) (11 languages), European Commission (DG Transport & Energy) (link to document lost)
Strategic Environmental Assessment: A sourcebook and reference guide on international experience by IIED (Barry Dalal-Clayton and Barry Sadler)
The EC's Secretariat-General supports the Impact Assessment process aimed at structuring and supporting the development of policies in the EC (and see, for example, these guidelines )
The EC's Directorate General for Development provides Terms of Reference for Strategic Environmental Analysis for Policy (within the Environmental Integration theme)
Also experience in Australia, Finland, the Netherlands (E-test and its successor), New Zealand (resource management act) and United States of America.
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