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sue. The Ukrainian system of environmental assessment covers almost only as-
sessments at a project level and has the form of state environmental expertise. It
lacks a process for integrating environmental concerns into development policies,
plans and programmers.
There is a need for an additional law that would provide for efficient implemen-
tation of SEA as a sustainable development instrument. The national SEA proce-
dure must consolidate transparency, accountability and justice in the work of ad-
ministrative institutions and public authorities. This will require the further
development of the methodology for making official decisions in the context of
sustainable development at national, regional and local (municipal) level. Specify-
ing the set of criteria (indicators) that would reveal efficiency of SEA as a sustain-
able development instrument is also of great importance. Such a set must include
social indicators, economic indicators, environmental indicators, institutional indi-
cators and structural indicators.
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