Time schedule for ex ante evaluation and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Romania-Bulgaria Cross-Border Cooperation Operational Programme Technical Meeting&Joint Approval Committee, Bucharest, 2-3 April 2007
Ex ante evaluation (I) The 30 th of October the first draft of the OP was sent to the ex ante expert; The 19 th of November the first ex ante evaluation report; The 7 th of December 2006 – interim ex ante evaluation report on the implementation part; The 5 th of January 2007 – the first full draft of the OP has been sent to the ex ante expert; The 22 nd of January – the second ex ante evaluation report has been finalized;
Ex ante evaluation (II) The 23 rd of January 2007 – The ex ante report has been sent to our Bulgarian counterpart; The 26 th of February 2007 – the second full draft of the OP has been sent to the ex ante expert. The 8 th of March 2007 – the third ex ante evaluation report has been finalized; The 9 th of March 2007 – the third ex ante evaluation report has been sent to our Bulgarian counterpart;
The 29th of March 2007 – The third full draft of the programme document has been sent to the ex ante expert; On the 15 th of April 2007 – the final ex ante evaluation report will be finalized. Ex ante evaluation (III)
Strategic Environmental Assessment (I) The 30 th of October 2006 – the first draft of the OP has been sent to the SEA expert; The 27 th of November 2007 – The first SEA report (scoping report) has been finalized; The 23 rd of January 2007 – The first full draft of the OP and the SEA report have been sent for consultation to the environmental authorities from Romania and Bulgaria. The 16 th of March 2007 – the consultations on the first SEA report have been finalized and the comments resulted have been sent to the SEA expert;
Strategic Environmental Assessment (II) 15 th of April 2007 – the draft environmental report will finalized 16 th of April 2007 – start of public consultation (30 days) and consultation of the relevant environmental authorities on the draft environmental report and draft RO – BG OP (in both Romania and Bulgaria); 15 th of May – end of the consultations 23 rd of May – finalization of the environmental report and of the environmental statement.
Thank you! Adrian Costandache Evaluation Officer Tel: