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Support to JASPERS in defining an approach to meet the general conditionality on EIA/SEA for the programming period 2014 – 2020 in Romania and Bulgaria

Bulgaria

European Investment Bank

Romania, Bulgaria

JASPERS aims at improving the preparation of major projects to be co-financed by the Cohesion Fund and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the new Member States during the period 2007-2013. For this purpose, JASPERS foresees using the technical and financial expertise of the EIB, the EBRD and KFW to strengthen the capacity of national and regional authorities, helping them to deliver high-quality project proposals which will make efficient use of EU funds and mobilize additional sources of funding. JASPERS has been asked by several Member States to support competent authorities involved in the implementation of EIA and SEA Directives in developing training strategies for the staff that will be involved, during the next programming period 2014-2010 , in EIA and SEA processes. JASPERS intends to prepare a standard set of tools and recommendations/guidelines that could be used by the environmental authorities in any interest EU Member State to design and implement its own strategic approach to build EIA/SEA capacity in the administration, so as to satisfy the requirements of the ex-ante conditionality. This standard set shall include tools for ensuring effective training and dissemination of information to relevant staff, as well as concise standard recommendations/guidelines for developing sound EIA reports for projects in those sectors more frequently requesting Community financial support. Once this set of tools and recommendation/guidelines will be developed, JASPERS intend to pilot its use to address requests received by Romania and Bulgaria, in close cooperation with the Bulgarian and Romanian environmental authorities.

Start date: 2012-10-22

End date: 2013-09-26