Brussels 30 June 2008

Integrated management and planning

ICZM

What is ICZM

1. 1996-1999: Demonstration programme followed in 2000, 2002 and 2007 with recommendations (EP+Council) and Communications (EC) concerning the implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management

2. ICZM is a strategy for an integrated approach to planning and management, in which all policies, sectors and, to the highest possible extent, individual interests are properly taken into account, with proper consideration given to the full range of temporal and spatial scales, and involving all coastal stakeholders in a participative way.

3. Slow and long-term process: most national strategies developed were adopted in 2006 and their implementation is only starting.

4. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/iczm/home.htm

Principles of ICZM

1. A broad overall perspective 2. A long-term perspective3. Adaptive management 4. Local specificity5. Working with natural processes 6. Involving all the parties concerned 7. Support and involvement of relevant

administrative bodies 8. Using a combination of instruments

In the guidance:• Process

summary• CS concerning

ports or estuaries

GCF: SEA

What is an SEA?

“SEA is a process that aims to integrate environmental and

sustainability considerations in strategic decision-making”

European Directive 2001/42/EC "on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment“ (the “SEA Directive”)

Plans and programmes (P&P)=— which are subject to preparation and/or adoption by an

authority at …regional or local level or…— which are required by legislative, regulatory or

administrative provisions;Environmental assessment… for all P&P—which are prepared for …, energy, industry, transport,

waste management, water management, …country planning or land use and which set the framework for future development consent of projects listed in Annexes I and II to EIA Directive

—which, in view of the likely effect on sites, have been determined to require an assessment pursuant to Article 6 or 7 (=SPA) of BHD Directive. Link with

6.3 ?

SEA plans and programmes

Time and integration

TWICE ?

WFDArt. 6.3 &6.4 BHD ?

other

EIA

SEAArt. 6.3 &6.4 BHD ?

Twice thesame ?

SEA contentsSEA, information to be provided includes:—the relevant aspects of the current state of the environment

and the likely evolution thereof without implementation of the plan or programme; the environmental characteristics of areas likely to be significantly affected;

—any existing environmental problems… including those relating to any areas… designated pursuant to Nature Dir.

—the environmental protection objectives, established at international, Community or MS level…, relevant …and the way those objectives… have been taken into account…;

—the likely significant effects1 on the environment, including on issues such as biodiversity…, fauna, flora, water,… and the interrelationship between the above factors;

—Mitigation and alternatives are considered too(1) These effects should include secondary, cumulative,

synergistic, short, medium and long-term permanent and temporary, positive and negative effects.

Integrated management approach:long-term land planning

In France, a DTA may organise spatial development and environmental protection in some strategic areas. DTA will be subject to SEA in the future. Several DTA were adopted in 2006 in port areas (Seine, Loire, Gironde, …) just a few

days before the obligation to undertake an SEAOther case studies ?

Guidance Concept Form SEA

Guidance Concept Form No.:XX

Key issue/ Question

Is SEA, a legal tool dedicated to planning and environmental matters including BHD, adapted to port sector development in estuaries and coastal habitats

Explanation of the question and its pertinence (KE)

Anticipation, proactive approach,Facilitation of the future authorisation process, Spatial organisation including compensation scheme, long term land planningWhen to undertake an SEA or an EIA, how to consider BHD art. 6.3 ?

EU Guidance already existing

Implementation of Directive 2001/42 on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment + several technical guidance (coastal erosion, transport…) and comparisons with EIA.

Guidance Concept Form SEA

New guidance approach to be validated

•SEA affects the decision-making process at a stage where more alternatives are available for consideration. SEA is done in parallel with the P&P elaboration

• Organisation of spatial policies, including port development and nature protection, is done through land planning and subject to SEA

• SEA may frame future authorisation process and EIA

•SEA is adapted to recurring management activities (e.g. dredging scheme)

• SEA deals with impacts that are difficult to consider at the project level, for instance the cumulative and synergistic impacts of multiple projects, e.g. urban plus tourism plus transport projects on a coastline.

•SEA can deal with larger-scale coastal and environmental impacts such as those on coastal biodiversity or global warming (increased wave height etc) more effectively than can individual EIAs.Case study or key example

…

Based on our draft SEA-GCF: before the next WG, meeting with a sub-group composed of ENV D3, ENV B2, EIA-SEA

expert group and ESPO

Guidance Concept Form SEA

GCF: Framework dredging scheme

Guidance Concept Form Framework Dredging Scheme

Guidance Concept Form No.:XX

Key issue/ Question

How a Framework Dredging Scheme may help the renewal of dredging authorization ?

Explanation of the question and its pertinence (KE)

Where maintenance dredging operations have the potential to affect Natura 2000 sites, it should be considered as a ‘plan or project’ for the purposes of the EC Habitats Directive, and assessed in accordance with Article 6(3) of that Directive.

BUT• Maintenance dredging is different from

many other types of ‘plan or project’ • it usually consists of a cycle or series

of repeated dredges (recurring management)

• Maintenance dredging was implemented for many years in most locations and European sites were, in many cases, designated with these operations already taking place

• Recurring environmental assessment for recurring authorisation process ?

Guidance Concept Form Framework Dredging Scheme

EU Guidance already existing

EC Interpretation note on "Estuaries": With regard to maintenance dredging activities, there is no immediate reason to believe that existing activities associated with port maintenance, which had been carried out over a long period of time in an estuary prior to its proposal as a site of Community interest, cannot continue.

New guidance approach to be validated

Long term approach with “Framework dredging schemes” submitted to strategic environmental assessment. Make the renewal of the permit easier (alternatives, IROPI…)

Needed information to prepare a Framework Dredging Scheme (annual volumes, impacts, disposal areas, integration in the natural evolution of the system...)

- Monitoring the positive or negative impact : key point for the renewal of the authorization, Include the results of the monitoring schemes ?Case study or Key example

Maintenance dredging protocol by DEFRA or GEODE

Based on our draft SEA-GCF: before the next WG, meeting with a sub-group composed of Morris (Nature

England+Defra), Xicluna (GEODE), MINK (Euda)

Guidance Concept Form SEA

Maintenance dredging

protocol by DEFRA Baseline document

• The existing need for maintenance dredging in individual areas; • The existing volumes, frequencies and duration of dredging

operations. • The precise locations of dredging and disposal; • Methods of dredging, transport and disposal, • Any restrictions imposed as licence conditions or by physical

constraints (e.g. depth, tidal flow, wave or weather conditions); • Material type and chemical status (existing and historical); • The history of dredging and disposal at particular locations• Any monitoring requirements previously imposed through licences,

and the outcomes of such monitoring; • Any beneficial use and sediment cell maintenance schemes, or

mitigation and compensation schemes entered into; • Any other relevant information from past studies or previous

applications that have possible direct or indirect links to the maintenance dredging.

..and

• the interest features of the sites and their conservation objectives

• the extent to which the ecological requirements of the sites have been achieved, maintained or restored since the requirements of the Birds or Habitats Directive were applied to the sites.

• A clear evaluation by Natural England of the impact of ongoing established dredging activities on the sites

...benefits

• «Although preparation of a Baseline Document does not in itself mean there is no adverse affect, the presumption is that most maintenance dredging proposals in line with established practice as described in the Baseline Document, will fit within the tolerance range and thus be found unlikely to have a significant effect, usually without the need for further detailed information or consideration.

• It is expected that most maintenance dredges will fall into this category.

• This streamlined approach will enable those proposals not likely to have a significant effect on a European site to be quickly and easily identified».

(Defra, 2007)

...benefits

• «Development of a sector-specific management plan for dredging and disposal is not systematic.

• In fact, this can be considered as part of a wider global approach

• Integrating this type of sectoral plan into a more global approach helps to limit the multiplication of management tools, already numerous in estuaries».

(GEODE, 2008)