Since the EU Directive 2001/42/EC on the assessment of impacts on certain plans and programs relating to the environment, Member States of the Community EU is forced to organize their decision-making procedures to incorporate environmental concerns into political action and determine the upstream environmental impacts of a project or plan. In many countries this is done by the Ministry of Environment which is then too often confronted with other departments.
France, so to eliminate this type of tension within the state, created in July 2008, via the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Planning ( MEEDDAT), a General Council of the Environment and Sustainable Development (CGEDD).
This body under the direct authority of the Minister of State serves as an instrument of advice, expertise, inspection, audit and evaluation MEEDDAT but also for any other department and public authority may the request. In addition, and so this structure can play its role perfectly, une autorité environnementale vient d'être créée en son sein.
Entité composée de professeurs d'université, de préfets, d'ingénieurs ou encore d'architectes, elle aura comme objectif premier d'évaluer les études d'impacts réalisées au préalable de 150 grands travaux nationaux :
• autoroutes,
• lignes à grande vitesse,
• lignes à haute tension,
• centrales nucléaires (notamment les deux prochains EPR).
Très belle initiative censée apporter plus de clarté mais qui laisse déjà entrevoir certaines limites. En effet, c’est le cas des projets portés par les collectivités local, where only the prefects can be mandated, state officials who are not able to analyze and provide solutions to such problems. The latest example is, undoubtedly, the proposed Formula 1 circuit in Yvelines.
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Source: article by F. Roussel-Environnement.com News (06/05/2009).
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