Monitoring in environmental assessment of plans and programs

This paper focuses on methods for setting the monitoring systems of plans and programmes (plans), according to Dir. 2001/42/EC (SEA Directive). It proposes a systematic approach to correlate the indicators describing the plan implementation process and the environmental context indicators, in order to describe to which extent plans objectives and actions contribute to the achievement of environmental sustainability objectives set out in the SEA process. SIMO2, a Webgis based tool for environmental monitoring has the potential to support environmental monitoring of plans thorough the calculation and representation of indicators.