Montenegro

Strategic Assessment of Impact on Environment – Concept Presentation Workshop

Podgorica, 13 April, 2006: The Workshop “Strategic assessment of impact on environment – concept presentation” was conducted within the activities defined by the Project “Strengthening Capacities of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning to Deal with Problems of Environmental Management”, jointly implemented by United Nations Development Program (cluster: Capacity Development Programme) and Montenegrin Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning.

The issues presented at the workshop were the concept of potential usage of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) in Montenegro, practical steps of SEA including “screening”, “scooping”, public participation, analysis of programme goals, impact analysis, “environmental report” and practical aspect of SEA implementation.
 
The 21 participants who represented Ministry of Environmental Protection and Physical Planning, Ministry for Agriculture, Forest and Water Management, Ministry of Tourism, Ministry of Economy, Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Transport and officials for five Montenegrin Municipalities (Pljevlja, Bijelo Polje, Podgorica, Kotor and Niksic) were provided with new information on assessment of impact on the environment.

The CDP will continue to provide support in this field. A follow-up workshop “Strategic assessment of impact on environment for Ministries, municipalities and non governmental organization” will be organized beginning of May this year.