Espoo Convention. UNECE Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention, 1991) requires its Parties to consult with other Parties if a plan or programme may have significant transboundary effects. Supplemented by a Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (2003). Referred to in AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 11 (2008) on how to avoid, minimise or mitigate impact of infrastructural developments and related disturbance affecting waterbirds • Espoo Parties accounting for action; synthesis reports of implementation? ⮚ European Union EU Directive on Environmental Assessment – initially Directive 85/337/EEC (1985) and amended several times since (latest version Directive 2011/92/EU (2011) with amendments in Directive 2014/52/EU (2014)) Referred to in AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 11 (2008) on how to avoid, minimise or mitigate impact of infrastructural developments and related disturbance affecting waterbirds • Implementation/ compliance reviews at EU level. EU Directive 2001/42/EC on Strategic Environmental Assessment (2001) Referred to in “Renewable energy technologies and migratory species: guidelines for sustainable deployment” (AEWA MOP document 6.37, 2015) • Implementation/ compliance reviews at EU level. EU guidance document on Wind energy developments and Natura 2000 (2011) (subsequently updated in 2021 as Wind energy developments and EU legislation) Referred to in “Renewable energy technologies and migratory species: guidelines for sustainable deployment” (AEWA MOP document 6.37, 2015) • Promote awareness and application of the more recent update of the guidance. ⮚ OECD OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Guidance on SEA: Applying Strategic Environmental Assessment. Good Practice Guidance for Development Co-operation (2006). Referred to in “Renewable energy technologies and migratory species: guidelines for sustainable deployment” (AEWA MOP document 6.37, 2015) • Assess application of guidance. ⮚ World Bank World Bank working paper “Good dams and bad dams: environmental criteria for site selection of hydroelectric projects (2003) Noted in preamble of MOP Resolution 5.16 (2012) on • Assess application of criteria. Renewable energy and migratory waterbirds2 ⮚ International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) Recommended that all impact assessment should follow the Best Practice Principles for Impact Assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment and Biodiversity in Impact Assessment provided in an IAIA tool...
Espoo Convention. Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (informally called the Espoo Convention). It is a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) convention signed in Espoo, Finland, in 1991 that entered into force in 1997. F-ANP – concrete container designed by Framatome Advanced Nuclear Power and used at INPP. GA – Gap Analysis; GDS – General Data Sets (on Radioactive Waste Disposal Plans); INPP – Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant; LRW – liquid radioactive waste; MADM – Multi-Attribute Decision Making; MODM – Multi-Objective Decision Making; NPP – Nuclear Power Plant; NSR – Near Surface Repository; PSAR – Preliminary Safety Analysis Report; RBMK – Russian acronym which means “channel type high power reactor”; RWISF – Reactor Waste Interim Storage Facility; SAR –Safety Analysis Report; SE – State Enterprise; Security area – an area that is surrounded by a physical barrier around the perimeter of nuclear facility to which access is controlled, for the purpose of physical protection; SPH – Storage Pool Hall; TD – Technological Design; WAC – Waste Acceptance Criteria; Zone R1 – area with equipment above the reactor in reactor shaft, including channels; Zone R2 – area with equipment below the reactor in reactor shaft; Zone R3 – area with reactor equipment in reactor shaft SECTION IV
Espoo Convention. A regional legal agreement to promote environmentally sound and sustainable economic development through the application of ESIA. Ethnography The study of customs and the cultural heritage of separate ethnic and human groups and tribes. Eurasian The extended landmass of Europe and Asia and specifically the large indeterminate region where the two continents join. Exploration Well A well drilled in search of an undiscovered reservoir or to greatly extend the limits of a known reservoir.
