Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context:bijlage VI

Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context

Appendix VI Elements for bilateral and multilateral co-operation

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1

Concerned Parties may set up, where appropriate, institutional arrangements or enlarge the mandate of existing institutional arrangements within the framework of bilateral and multilateral agreements in order to give full effect to this Convention.

2

Bilateral and multilateral agreements or other arrangements may include:

a)

Any additional requirements for the implementation of this Convention, taking into account the specific conditions of the subregion concerned;

b)

Institutional, administrative and other arrangements, to be made on a reciprocal and equivalent basis;

c)

Harmonization of their policies and measures for the protection of the environment in order to attain the greatest possible similarity in standards and methods related to the implementation of environmental impact assessment;

d)

Developing, improving, and/or harmonizing methods for the identification, measurement, prediction and assessment of impacts, and for post-project analysis;

e)

Developing and/or improving methods and programmes for the collection, analysis, storage and timely dissemination of comparable data regarding environmental quality in order to provide input into environmental impact assessment;

f)

The establishment of threshold levels and more specified criteria for defining the significance of transboundary impacts related to the location, nature or size of proposed activities, for which environmental impact assessment in accordance with the provisions of this Convention shall be applied, and the establishment of critical loads of transboundary pollution;

g)

Undertaking, where appropriate, joint environmental impact assessment, development of joint monitoring programmes, intercalibration of monitoring devices and harmonization of methodologies with a view to rendering the data and information obtained compatible.

3

Paragraphs 1 and 2 may be applied, mutatis mutandis, to any protocol to the Convention.

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