The integration of policies across sustainable development areas
The integration of policies across sustainable development areas
Until the national sustainable development strategy (due to be approved by the government at the end of this year) the principal framework for the integration of environmental policies with other policies and promotion of sustainable development was contained in the State Environmental Policy. First issued in 1995, this government resolution has been regularly updated (in 1999, 2001 and 2004). One of the main goals of the 2004 revision is to make environmental management better articulated with the country’s economic policies and to strengthen co-ordination between the Ministry of the Environment and other government departments. A governmental council on sustainable development was established in August 2003. It has led the preparation of the national sustainable development strategy and reinforced policy coherence and integration. The council is currently chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister for Economy. Other government departments and the Parliament are also represented in the council and the council is served by working groups which provide additional platforms for co-ordination. One of the main challenges faced by the council has been to improve co-ordination amongst the large number of institutions dealing with issues in sustainable development, especially as the new three-tier administrative structure in the public sector might otherwise result in blurring the allocation of competencies across government levels. In practice, integration remains limited as regulatory impact analysis of sustainable development policies is not systematically undertaken. The authorities have not used cost-benefit analysis as a regular policy integration tool in the past. Such analysis is required for neither policy programmes nor projects, and has only been applied to projects funded by the European Union. On the other hand, environmental impact assessments (EIA) have been extensively applied to economic development projects since they became mandatory in 1992. Projects have sometimes had to be amended or abandoned as a result of EIAs because the environmental damage was judged to be excessive. The accession to the European Union requires the Czech Republic to subject plans and programmes to strategic environmental assessments (SEA).
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