Environmental impact assessment

Environmental Impact Assessment Résumé: Environmental Impact Assessment, as a process for integrating environmental considerations into decision making, is one of the most important instruments of environmental protection. It was first applied in United States of America and then emerged internationally since 1970. Strategic Environmental Assessmet (SEA), which is the aim of my thesis, is developing very quickly for last twenty years. Now is established in international documents and also domestic legislation - especially cause of the Czech Republic accession to the European Union. Strategic environmental assessment presents a process, which should provide information on the environmental consequences of proposed plans, programs and policies, and also ensure participation of potentially affected subjects, including public. In my thesis I describe respective international regulation, European directives and Czech legislation of strategic environmental assessment and analyze the level of quality and effectiveness of the SEA process and public participation in Czech regulation according to respective international and European regulation. For the SEA legislation in the Czech Republic a number of international treaties and European directives are very important. It is Convention on Environmental Impact..