Critical review of the law application concerning the strategic evaluation of influences on the living environment in space and town planning

Abstract

Considerations of the environmental protection in spatial and urban plans in past decade have been based on propositions of the Law on Environmental protection, Law on planning and arrangement of settlements, and Spatial plan of Serbia, because other legislation did not offered suitable instruments. Recently adopted the Law on environmental protection introduce a new instrument for environmental protection in planning - the strategic environmental impact assessment (SEIA), which was regulated by the separate Law on strategic environmental impact assessment. Key characteristics of the law on strategic environmental impact assessment were analyzed in this paper, as well as problems and limitations in implementation of that law on spatial and urban plans.

Razmatranje zaštite životne sredine u prostornim i urbanističkim planovima u protekloj deceniji zasnivalo se na propozicijama Zakona o zaštiti životne sredine, Zakona o planiranju i uređenju prostora i naselja i Prostornom planu Srbije, budući da drugi zakoni nisu ponudili pogodne instrumente. Nedavno usvojeni Zakon o zaštiti životne sredine uvodi novi instrument za zaštitu životne sredine u planiranju -'Stratešku procenu uticaja na životnu sredinu' (SPU), koja je regulisana posebnim Zakonom o strateškoj procenu uticaja na životnu sredinu. U radu se analizira značenje ključnih karakteristika strateske procene i odredbi zakona o strateškoj proceni, kao i problemi i ograničenja u primeni tog zakona na prostorne i urbanističke planove.