The SEA Protocol requires states to evaluate the consequences of their official draft plans and programmes, and, to the extent appropriate, policies and legislation that are likely to have significant environmental effects.

• Adopted: 21 May 2003
• Opened for signature: 21 May 2003
• Entered into force: 11 July 2010
• Parties: 35 (including the European Union) (see table below)

More information on the SEA Protocol, including the text, is available here.

The current status of the SEA Protocol is available here.

The following articles related to the SEA Protocol were published in the Nuclear Law Bulletin:

• Environmental Law and Nuclear Law: A Growing Symbiosis, by S. Emmerechts (NLB 82, p. 91).
• Nuclear and environmental law in the licensing of nuclear installations, by C. Raetzke (NLB 92, p. 55).
• The modern nuclear liability regime’s concept of “environmental damage”: How national courts may apply it and what remedies they may provide for such damage, by S. Knopp Pisi (NLB 111, p. 23).

* Country with at least one nuclear power plant in operation.