Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
- Approaches to screening and scoping
- EIA & Green Deal
- Public Participation
- Relationship between EIA and development consent and decision-making, Appropriate Assessment and climate proofing
- EIA Procedure efficiency and quality control
- Connection between EIA and Environmental and Health Risk Assessment
- Climate change
- Cumulative impacts
- EIA and Transboundary consultations
- Environmental protection measures
- Environmental monitoring
- Judicial practice
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA):
- Approaches to screening and scoping
- SEA & Green Deal
- Public Participation
- Relationship between SEA and strategic decision-making, Appropriate Assessment and climate proofing
- Conclusion of the SEA procedure
- Connection between SEA and Environmental and Health Risk Assessment
- SEA and Social Impact Assessment
- SEA and physical planning
- SEA and transboundary consultations
- Cumulative impacts
- Judicial practice
Appropriate assessment:
- Conservation Objectives
- Appropriate Assessment and its relation to EIA Directive
- Application to projects not listed under Annex I and II of EIA Directive - mechanism for screening such activities
- Procedures
- Scope of assessment of biodiversity, geodiversity and landscape diversity
- Admissibility of projects found to have adverse effects
- Overriding Public Interest
- Approach to alternatives
- Ecological Network and Economy
- Judicial practice
Climate proofing:
- New European Commission Technical guidance on climate the proofing of infrastructure in the period 2021-2027 and its connection to EIA and SEA
- Climate data availability and quality
- Uncertainty andno-regretoption
- Climate resilience and neutrality of projects
Sustainable and Inclusive Growth:
- Green Infrastructure
- Ecosystem Services
- Circular Economy