Strategic Environmental Assessment - SEA

What is SEA?
The SEA accompanies the construction of a plan or program (urban, energy, environmental, industrial, etc.) which can have significant effects on the environment. It consists of a process aimed at preventively identifying the significant environmental impacts that will result from the implementation of individual plan/program choices, choosing the most sustainable ones among the possible alternative solutions.

The aim is to guarantee consistency with the objectives of environmental sustainability, promotion of social inclusion, rational use and valorisation of natural resources and public participation for lasting and sustainable development in the procedures for adopting, approving and implementing plans and programmes.

Aims
The SEA aims to ensure a high level of environmental protection and to contribute to the integration of environmental considerations when preparing and adopting plans and programs in order to promote sustainable development.

To this end, it is therefore essential that the SEA process becomes an integral part of the planning and programming tool formation process:

  • from the assumption of objectives
  • to the development of policies and actions
  • to the approval of plan/program choices
  • to monitoring the effects deriving from their implementation.

The Administration has identified which:

  • Competent Authority VAS
    - the Water Resources and Environmental Hygiene Area - Environmental Authorizations and Land Management Unit
  • Proceeding Authority VAS
    -     the Area that promotes the plan or program.

The Competent Authority's task is to follow the decision-making processes in the municipal planning and programming processes so that the regulatory provisions of the sector and the municipal environmental sustainability policies and objectives are implemented.

VAS monitoring EXPO program agreements

  • VAS Environmental Observatory Institution - Published on 20 July 2017 - DD 28/2017
  • SEA Environmental Observatory - Publication of final report - Published on 5 December 2017

VAS monitoring Territorial Government Plan (PGT)

  • Establishment of the current VAS PGT Environmental Observatory - Published on 15/03/2018
  • VAS Environmental Observatory - Publication of final report - Published on 17/04/2018  

Arch. Caterina Colombo
via Sile, 8 - 3rd floor - 20139 Milan
tel. 02 884.66580
Email: caterina.colombo@comune.milano.it

Community level
Council Directive 01/42/EC of 27 June 2001 - Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programs on the environment

National level
Legislative Decree 3 April 2006, n. 152 and subsequent amendments - Environmental regulations

Guidelines for the preparation of the non-technical summary of the Environmental Report of the Directorate for Environmental Assessments and Authorizations of the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea

Regional Level
Regional Law 11 March 2005, n.12 (art. 4 - Environmental evaluation of plans) - Law for the governance of the territory DCR of 13 March 2007, n.351 - General guidelines for the evaluation of plans and programs (Art. 4, paragraph 1, LR 11 March 2005, N 12)

Municipal level
- Executive Resolution 28/2017 - VAS Observatory
- Executive Decision 26/2018 - VAS Observatory

Decree no. 692 of 14/12/2010 of the General Directorate for Territory and Urban Planning of the Lombardy Region which approves the Circular "Application of the environmental assessment of plans and programs - SEA in the municipal context" 

DGR of 10 November 2010, n. 761 - Determination of the procedure for environmental assessment of plans and programs - SEA - (art. 4, lrn 12/2005; dcrn 351/2007). Transposition of the provisions of Legislative Decree no. 29 June 2010. 128, with modification and integration of the dd.gr 27 December 2008, n. 8/6420 and 30 December 2009, n. 8/10971

DGR 30 December 2009, n.10971 - Determination of the environmental assessment procedure for plans and programs - SEA (art. 4, lrn 12/2005; dcrn 351/2007) - Implementation of the provisions of Legislative Decree 16 January 2008, n. 4 modification, integration and inclusion of new models

Resolution of the Regional Council, 27 December 2007, n. 6420 - Determination of the procedure for the environmental assessment of plans and programs

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Updated: 16/02/2023