Brief Overview on Sea in Greece

Abstract

In Greece, the implementation of Environmental Assessment is officially limited to certain activities and projects (DIR 85/337/E.E.C. as it is adopted in Greek law by the Common Ministerial Decision 69269/5387/90). Although a great number of plans and programmes exist in several sectors (land use, agriculture, industry, energy, transport, tourism, water resources management, waste management, urban planning), implemented by formal or informal procedures, there is no official procedure for SEAs. Nevertheless, a kind of Strategic Environmental Assessment exists already in certain sectors (e.g. physical planning (land use)) in order to examine the environmental impacts caused by certain plans or programmes. However, neither the assessment nor the decision — making process are exactly the same as those that are defined by the Proposal for the SEA Directive.