Environmental report strategic environmental assessment of the Russian territory CBC Kolarctic 2021-2027 / V. A. Masloboev, E. M. Klyuchnikova, E. A. Borovichev [et al.]. - Apatity : FRS KSCRAS, 2022. - 62 p.

EIA in the Russian Federation is regulated primarily by the following documents, but not limited to these: -Federal Law o f 10.01.2002 No. 7-FZ On Environmental Protection; -Federal Law o f 23.11.1995 No. 174-FZ On Environmental Expert Review; -O rder of the Ministry o f Natural Resources and Environment o f the Russian Federation of 01.12.2020 No. 999 enacting requirements to Environmental Impact Assessment materials1. At the same time, the procedure stipulated by the Regulation on EIA fully complies with basic principles and includes all the main elements of the procedure described in international treaties, the primary of which is the Espoo Convention. An additional list of international regulations applied in both Russia and the EU is given in the next section. It can be concluded that a similar legal framework balances the Russian and EU approaches to environmental assessment. Despite the pending approval and, consequently, lacking legislation on compulsory> strategic environmental assessment, the Consortium proceeds in its assessment from the existing legal norms and regulations. The experts take into account the existing regional strategies, as well as the experience of voluntary strategic environmental assessment. 1.2. Overview of the EU’s strategic environmental assessment requirements as applied to the Kolarctic CBC for the period 2021-2027 The document regulating strategic environmental assessment for plans and programmes in the EU is Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council dated June 27, 2001. In order to ensure proper implementation of the Directive, the European Commission has developed Guidelines for the implementation of strategic environmental assessment2, whose provisions were taken into account when preparing this Report. The main advantage of strategic assessment is an analysis of all potential consequences of the implementation of environmental plans and programmes in the particular area. The strategic assessment findings are intended to facilitate environmentally and socially oriented decision-making for incorporation into the relevant plans and programmes, which also include the Kolarctic Cross-Border Cooperation Programme for the period 2021-2027. Additional international regulations that were taken into account when developing the Directive are: -Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment (Kiev, 2003 )3; -Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus, 1998)4; -Declaration on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro. 1992)5; —Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo. 1991)’. 'Order of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation of December 1. 2020 No. 999 enacting requirements to environmental impact assessment materials (takes effect starting from 01.09.2021 and remains valid until 01.09.2027) 2https://ec.europa.eu/environment/archives/eia/pdf/030923_sea_guidance.pdf ’Protocol on strategic environmental assessment to the Convention on environment assessment in a transboundary context 4https://ec.europa.eu/environment/aarhus/ :'https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/migration/generalassembly/docs/g lobalcompact/A_CONF. 15 l_26_Vol.I_Declaration.pdf 9