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Strategic Environmental Impact Assessment study of the Operational Program “Accessibility Infrastructures “of the Greek National Strategic Reference Framework of the period 2007-2013

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Country: Greece

Duration: 7 Months

Start date (month/year): 11/2006
Completion date (month/year): 06/2007

Name of associated Consultants: Paraskevopoulos – Georgiadis Ltd
Client: Ministry of Transportation and Ministry of Public Works

 

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Detailed Project Description

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• Determination of the Priority Axes of the program and correlation of its objectives
• Description of the environmental fields of interest (e.g. biodiversity, water resources etc)
• Determination of the environmental targets and indices on the basis of which the impacts of the programme on the environment were assessed
• Recording and assessment of the existing condition in the relevant environmental fields as well as of the trends and expected developments in the transportation sector in Greece
• Co-assessment of the priorities and environmental objectives and selection of the ones further analyzed
• Assessment of the potential environmental impacts on the basis of environmental indices and in relation to the recommended measures and actions
• Assessment of possible accumulative impacts of the program taking into account the indices, the objectives and analyzing the impacts on the measures and selected actions
• Investigation of possible synergy impacts of the program per environmental field/ objective
• Proposal of possible impact mitigation measures
• Proposal for an impact monitoring program during the implementation of the program on the basis of important environmental indices, as determined



Important environmental issues

 

• Identification of the “red flags” concerning the impacts of the proposed program on the environment
• Impacts of the proposed measures on the ambient air quality, acoustic environment of human agglomerations and natural ecosystems
• Cumulative impacts of various measures and synergy impacts with the measures of other programs



Description of actual services provided by Enveco within the assignment

Our staff covered the preparation of a major part of the whole SEA study. In particular, the following tasks have been covered:

Task 1: Collection of data for the description of the existing conditions of environmental fields related to the objective of the program
Task 2: Environmental Impact Assessment of the proposed program including the cumulative, direct and indirect impacts on natural environment parameters (ecosystems, flora, fauna, ect).
Task 3: Proposal for potential mitigation measures of the assessed environmental impacts on natural environment parameters (ecosystems, flora, fauna, ect).
Task 4: Proposals for the establishment of a monitoring program with specific monitored indexes for the evaluation and quantification of the environmental impacts