Environmental Directives Country Tool

The overall objective of this assignment is the development and implementation within the EIB of an ‘Environmental Directives Country Tool’, an online interactive knowledge-sharing intranet tool that will provide EIB staff with an overview of the implementation of the EU Environmental Directives within the EU Member States, Candidate Countries, Potential Candidate Countries and equivalent alignment in the EU Eastern Neighbour Countries (a total of 43 countries has been assessed)

The EU Environmental Legislation to be focused on include:

SEA Directive (Directive 2001/42/EC);

Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (Directive 2014/52/EU amending Directive 2011/92/EU);

Habitats and Birds Directives (Council Directive 92/43/EEC and Council Directive 2009/147/EC);

Article 4.7 of the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC);

Industrial Emissions Directive (Directive 2010/75/EU);

Seveso Directive (Directive 2012/18/EU); and public access to environmental information Directive (Directive 2003/4/EC);

Waste Framework Directive (Directive 2008/98/EC, as amended) specifically art. 3, point 2c) and art. 11,point 2 c);

Marine Strategy Directive (Directive 2008/56/EC) specifically Article 14;

Medium Combustion Plant Directive (Directive (EU) 2015/2193) specifically art. 6, para 9 ;

For each country, the relevant legal and institutional frameworks have been analysed and summarized in order to identify the different approaches to impact assessment. The main EU environmental legislation and its effective implementation has been assessed in the 40 countries in order to compare the degree of transposition and legal harmonization between countries.

The tool will be hosted on the EIB’s intranet and be an interactive policy tool that by selecting certain countries and certain policy areas, can provide EIB staff, with limited experience of projects in those countries, with information on how the environmental policies work at a glance.

The tool will be readily updatable, by the EIB, to reflect ongoing changes to a country’s legal and institutional frameworks.