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Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Espoo Convention (SEA Protocol)
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The SEA Protocol requires states to evaluate the consequences of their official draft plans and programmes, and, to the extent appropriate, policies and legislation that are likely to have significant environmental effects.

  • Adopted: 21 May 2003
  • Opened for signature: 21 May 2003
  • Entered into force: 11 July 2010
  • Parties: 34 (including the European Union) (see table below)

More information on the SEA Protocol, including the text, is available here.

The current status of the SEA Protocol is available here.

The following articles related to the SEA Protocol were published in the Nuclear Law Bulletin:

  • Environmental Law and Nuclear Law: A Growing Symbiosis, by S. Emmerechts (NLB 82, p. 91).
  • Nuclear and environmental law in the licensing of nuclear installations, by C. Raetzke (NLB 92, p. 55).

 

Parties to the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Espoo Convention (Kiev Protocol)
Albania Estonia Malta Serbia
Armenia* Finland* Moldova Slovak Republic*
Austria France* Montenegro Slovenia*
Bosnia and Herzegovina Germany Netherlands* Spain*
Bulgaria* Hungary* North Macedonia Sweden*
Croatia Italy Norway Ukraine*
Cyprus Latvia Poland European Union
Czechia* Lithuania Portugal  
Denmark Luxembourg Romania*  

* Country with at least one nuclear power plant in operation.

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