CLIENT:
Cork City Council
PROJECT NAME: REPORT TITLE:
Cork City Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy
SEA Statement
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background Cork City Council (CCC) have adopted the Cork City Council Electric Vehicle Charging Strategy. This is the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Statement for the Strategy. This SEA Statement provides information on the following: 1. How Environmental Considerations were integrated into the Strategy. 2. How the SEA Environmental Report and consultation submissions and observations on it have been taken into account during the preparation of the Strategy. 3. The reasons for choosing the Strategy as adopted, in the light of the other reasonable alternatives considered. 4. The measures decided concerning monitoring the significant environmental effects of implementation of the Strategy. The EPA in their Guidance on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Statements and Monitoring (2023) succinctly summarise the role SEA Statements have under the SEA process, as follows: 'SEA Statements have the potential to play a central role in summarising the effectiveness of the SEA process. They can capture how environmental considerations have shaped the plan/programme (e.g., through policy wordings, revisited zonings and other measures) and how the process has contributed to making the plan or programme more sustainable'. 1.2 Legislative Context SEA is required under the EU Council Directive 2001/42/EC on the Assessment of the Effects of Certain Plans and Programmes on the Environment (the SEA Directive) 1 . The SEA Directive requires that an environmental assessment is carried out on certain plans and programmes which are likely to have significant effects on the environment. The overarching objective of the SEA Directive is ‘ to provide for a high level of protection of the environment and to contribute to the integration of environmental considerations into the preparation and adoption of plans….with a view to promoting sustainable development ’ 2
1 Transposing Irish Regulations: S.I. No. 435 of 2004 (European Communities (Environmental Assessment of Certain Plans and Programmes) Regulations 2004, as amended by S.I. No. 200 of 2011 (European Communities (Environmental Assessment of Certain Plans and Programmes) (Amendment) Regulations 2011). S.I. No. 436 of 2004 (Planning and Development (Strategic Environmental Assessment) Regulations 2004, as amended by S.I. No. 201 of 2011 (Planning and Development (Strategic Environmental Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2011). 2 Implementation of SEA Directive (2001/42/EC): Assessment of the Effects of Certain Plans and Programmes on the Environment – Guidelines for Regional Authorities and Planning Authorities (Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, 2004)
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