Dvokut ECRO d.o.o. ZaVita, svetovanje, d.o.o. Integra Consulting s.r.o. Trnjanska 37 Tominškova 40 Pobrezni 18/16, 186 00 HR -10000 Zagreb, Hrvaška 1000 Ljubljana , Slovenija Pragu 8 , Republika Češka STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT of the COOPERATION PROGRAMME SLOVENIA – CROATIA 2014-2020 APPENDIX 1: APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT SEA REPORT Ljubljana, March 2015 This project is funded by the European Union Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Cooperation Programme INTERREG V-A Slovenia-Croatia 2014-2020 Appendix: Appropriate Assessment Strategic environmental assessment of the Cooperation Programme Slovenia – Croatia 2014-2020 Appendix 1: Appropriate Assessment SEA REPORT Contracting Authority : Republic of Slovenia Government Office for Development and European Cohesion Policy Kotnikova 5 SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Drafting of the PHIN Consulting & Training d.o.o. Cooperation Programme: Lanište 11c/1 HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia K&Z, Development Consulting ltd. Kranjska cesta 4, 4240 Radovljica, Slovenia Drafting of the ZaVita, svetovanje, d.o.o. Environmental Report: Tominškova 40 SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Responsible person: Matjaž Harmel, Director Dvokut –ECRO d.o.o. Trnjanska 37 HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia Responsible person: Marta Brkić, Director Integra C onsulting s.r.o. Pobrezni 18/16, 186 00 Pragu 8, Czech Republic Responsible person: Jiří Dusík, Director Project team leader: Matjaž Harmel, B. Sc. Forestry Project team deputy team leader: Klemen Strmšnik, B. Sc. Geography Project team members: Aleksandra Krajnc, B. Sc. Geography Marta Brkić, MA Landscape art and Architecture Jiří Dusík, M. Sc. Engeneering Jelena Fressl, B.Sc. Biology Ivana Šarić, B.Sc. Biology, Daniela Klaić Jančijev, B.Sc. Biology, Konrad Kiš, MSc Forestry Katarina Bulešić, Master of Geography Tomislav Hriberšek, B.Sc. Geology Ivan Juratek, B.Sc. Agronomy - Landscape Architect Gordan Golja, MSc Chemistry Strategic Environmental Assessment of the Cooperation Programme INTERREG V-A Slovenia-Croatia 2014-2020 Appendix: Appropriate Assessment TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 GLOSSARY ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 1 Short programme description ................................................................................................................................................................ 5 2 Data on the Cooperation Programme Slovenia-Croatia 2014-2020 .................................................................................................... 6 2.1. Programme area ................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 2.2. Planned land use, its scope and guidelines, spatial distribution of planned activities, or spatial guidelines and spatial extent of all planned interventions ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 2.3. General data on planned interventions ................................................................................................................................................. 7 2.3.1. Description of the Cooperation Programme Slovenia-Croatia for the programming period 2014-2020 ................................................ 7 2.3.1.1. Outline of the Programme ......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 2.3.2. Relationship of the Cooperation Programme Slovenia-Croatia 2014-2020 with other relevant programmes ..................................... 13 2.3.3. Indicative actions sorted according to the Regulation on the assessment of acceptability of impacts from plans and interventions on protected areas ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 2.4. Anticipated programming period ......................................................................................................................................................... 17 2.5. Expected consumption of natural resources....................................................................................................................................... 17 2.6. Expected emissions, waste and wastewaters and their management ............................................................................................... 18 3 Description of protected areas ............................................................................................................................................................. 19 3.1. Protected areas’ protection goals and factors contributing to value conservation .............................................................................. 19 3.2. Protected and degraded areas ........................................................................................................................................................... 20 3.3. Summary of current legal regimes within protected areas.................................................................................................................. 27 3.4. Data on obtaining nature protection guidelines or nature protection expert input and plan’s coherence with them, especially in respect to mitigation measures ...................................................................................................................................................................... 30 3.4.1 Programme coherence with the guidelines ............................................................................................................................................ 30 3.5. Land use ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 31 3.6. Species and Habitat types for which Natura 2000 area has been designated, including data from standard data forms .................. 31 3.7. management plans for protected areas and Natura 2000 sites and their guidelines ......................................................................... 32 3.8. Baseline conditions ............................................................................................................................................................................. 32 3.9. Key characteristics of habitat types and species of the area .............................................................................................................. 33 3.10. Data on seasonal influences and natural disasters (droughts and floods) on key habitats or species of the area ............................ 33 4 Impact assessment ............................................................................................................................................................................... 35 4.1. Determination of negative impacts on protection goals of particular protected areas, their integrity and cohesion, including cumulative impacts ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 35 4.2. Alternatives ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 44 4.3. mitigation measures ................................................................................................................................................................................ 44 4.4. monitoring ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 44 4.5. Recommendations .................................................................................................................................................................................. 45 4.6. Potential planned or considered nature protection initiatives that could have an impact on the future area conditions ......................... 45 5 Literature ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 46 6 Appendix preparation team .................................................................................................................................................................. 47 6.1 Firm .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 47 6.2 Team .................................................................................................................................................................................................