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Key bibliography


Environmental assessment and planning cycle

(Storey, 1995: 310)


EIA POST-EVALUATION

It is the stage in EIA that more closely follows the logic of Environmental Management Systems

Decree-Law no. 151-B/2013, of October 31, as amended by Decree-Law no. 47/2014, of March 24

«Post-evaluation» – process conducted after DIA is issued, includes monitoring programmes and auditing

(…)” DIA - Declaração Impacte Ambiental (Environmental

Impacts Declaration)


SCREENING

SCOPING

EIS PREPARATION

REVIEW

DECISION

POST-EVALUATION I

POST-EVALUATION II

EIA post-evaluation objectives

•  Assess the response of the environmental system to project effects;"

•  Assure projects environmental surveillance and check the effectiveness of environmental managements measures adopted, and decide on the need for further and more effective measures; "

•  Verify and analyse the effectiveness of the mitigation measures and the environmental management as laid out in the EIS and DIA to avoid, reduce, or compensate the negative impacts and stimulate the positive impacts; "

•  Verify impacts when there was uncertainty;"

•  Verify unexpected impacts; and "

•  Improve knowledge - learn about impacts for certain categories of projects in certain locations."


What Is EIA Follow-Up?

EIA follow-up can be simply defined as the monitoring and evaluation of the impacts of a project or plan (that has been subject to EIA) for management of, and communication about, the environmental performance of that project or plan (Morrison-Saunders and Arts 2004). Follow-up is essential for determining the outcomes of EIA. By incorporating feedback into the EIA process, follow-up enables learning from experience to occur. It can and should occur in any EIA system to prevent EIA being just a pro forma exercise.


What Is EIA Follow-Up? EIA follow-up comprises four elements (Arts et al., 2001): 1. Monitoring – the collection of activity and environmental data both before (baseline monitoring) and after activity implementation (compliance and impact monitoring). 2. Evaluation – the appraisal of the conformance with standards, predictions or expectations as well as the environmental performance of the activity. 3. Management – making decisions and taking appropriate action in response to issues arising from monitoring and evaluation activities. 4. Communication – informing the stakeholders about the results of EIA follow-up in order to provide feedback on project/plan implementation as well as feedback on EIA processes.


EIA Post-evaluation activities

• monitoring - programme of systematic observation,

measurement and registry actions, which is the proponent responsibility; should be conducted as established in the DIA, or in the EIS.

• auditing, is the objective and independent verification of conformity of the oberved practice in relation to expected predictions, or quality patterns and procedures, which is the responsibility of the EIA Authority.


Monitoring objectives

•  Monitor (measure) the response of the environmental system to the effects of the project;

•  Verify the nature and magnitude of the expected impacts

•  Verify the effectiveness of adopted mitigation and environmental management measures and the fulfilment of conditions laid out in the DIA;

•  Use results of monitoring to quantify mitigation measures.


Monitoring Planning

• monitoring places, including sampling and controlling

points,

• monitoring frequency, • monitoring indicators, and parameters, • data collection and storage methods per disciplines,

data analysis and presentation; and • necessary resources and costs.


Is not the same but is related to State of the

Environment monitoring

e.g. INAG Water Quality National network (Rede Nacional de Qualidade

da Água)

EIA POST-EVALUATION


Auditing

"• Engages verification of a system of registries

that result from a monitoring programme. "

• Performed by designated auditors (In portugal designated by the EIA Authority)."

• As far as possible is value judgement free.


1.  Post-evaluation for verification of conformity of the Execution Project with DIA, when DIA was issued, and the EIS was prepared for the Previous Studies or pre-project phase

2.  General post-evaluation, that includes monitoring and auditing everywhere in the world

EIA POST-EVALUATION The specific case of Portugal


1.  Post-evaluation for verification of conformity of the Execution Project with DIA

RECAPE - Relatório de Conformidade Ambiental

do Projecto de Execução com a DIA Report on the Environmental Conformity of the

Execution Project with DIA



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Screening

Scoping

EIS preparation

Review

Decision - DIA

Post-evaluation


Review

Decision - DIA

EIS in Execution Project phase

Construction

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RE C AP E

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Review

Decision - DIA

Review of RECAPE

Decision

Construction

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Monitoring Report

Objective: document and present the results of monitoring Timing of the report is established in DIA It should follow the Monitoring Plan esyablished in DIA or RECAPE


I – Introduction a.  Identification and monitoring objectives; b.  Scope (environmental factors, spatial and time limits for monitoring); c.  Legal framework; d.  Struture of monitoring report; e.  Technical authorship. II – Background a)  Reference to EIS, DIA, and Monitoring Plan in RECAPE, previous MR

and previous decisions of the EIA authority; b)  References to the adoption of measures to prevent or reduce impacts

that are being monitored. Timing for the adoption of such measures in relation to monitoring;

c)  References to possible claims or conflicts concerning the environmental factors that are being monitored.

Monitoring Report structure


III – Description of Monitoring Programmes (for each environmental factor)

a)  Measurements and registry parameters. Sampling places, measurement and registry;

b)  Data collection methods and equipment; c)  Data treatment methods, d)  Data relationship with the characteristics of the project and

with the environmental context; e)  Data evaluation criteria.

Monitoring Report structure (cont.)


Monitoring Report structure (cont.)

IV – Results of Monitoring Programmes (for each environmental factor)

a)  Results obtained; b)  Discussion, interpretation and evaluation of results in face of the criteria

defined; c)  Effectiveness assessment of the adopted measures to prevent or reduce the

impacts that are the object of monitoring; d)  Comparison of EIA predictions, including, when aplicable, the validation and

calibration of prediction models. V – Conclusions VI – Annexes

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