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UNECE Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Kiev, 2003)
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3. General provisions |
Article 2
Definitions
For the purposes of this Protocol,
1. "Convention" means the Convention on Environmental
Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context.
2. "Party" means, unless the text indicates otherwise,
a Contracting Party to this Protocol.
3. "Party of origin" means a Party or Parties to
this Protocol within whose jurisdiction the preparation
of a plan or programme is envisaged.
4. "Affected Party" means a Party or Parties to
this Protocol likely to be affected by the transboundary
environmental, including health, effects of a plan
or programme.
5. "Plans and programmes" means plans and programmes
and any modifications to them that are:
(a) Required by legislative, regulatory or administrative
provisions; and
(b) Subject to preparation and/or adoption by an
authority or prepared by an authority for adoption,
through a formal procedure, by a parliament or a
government.
6. "Strategic environmental assessment" means the
evaluation of the likely environmental, including
health, effects, which comprises the determination
of the scope of an environmental report and its
preparation, the carrying out of public participation
and consultations, and the taking into account of
the environmental report and the results of the
public participation and consultations in a plan
or programme.
7. "Environmental, including health, effect" means
any effect on the environment, including human health,
flora, fauna, biodiversity, soil, climate, air,
water, landscape, natural sites, material assets,
cultural heritage and the interaction among these
factors.
8. "The public" means one or more natural or legal
persons and, in accordance with national legislation
or practice, their associations, organizations or
groups.