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Risk Assessment and Management as an Important Tool for the EU Strategic Environmental Assessment

This article proposes the integration of hazard-related risk assessment and management into the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) which came into force by EU Directive 2001/42/EC in 2001. The author refers in this context to the material and procedural similarities between the SEA on the one hand and risk assessment and management on the other. For that reason, such integration can be characterized as both manageable and necessary for fulfilling the SEA requirements. Moreover, the article stresses the important role of spatial planning as one of the main elements of the Directive as well as risk management of natural and technological hazards. Risk assessment in this context can be understood as an important prerequisite for risk management. Finally, the importance of this relationship for assisting present EU legislation and policy objectives will be explained.