Environmental impact in a transboundary context: approval of the protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the UN/ECE Espoo Convention

The European Parliament adopted, by 656 votes to 12 with 11 abstentions, under the consultation procedure, a legislative resolution approving the proposal for a Council decision on the approval on behalf of the European Community of the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the 1991 UN/ECE Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context. The report had been tabled for consideration in plenary by Bogusław SONIK (EPP-ED, PL), on behalf of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.