Compliance With the Reporting Requirements With Regard to Environmental Impact Assessment(EIA)in Poland Within the Scope of theEUDirective

Abstract

Within the framework of the "PHARE Country Programme for the Poland of 2000", there was developed in the year of 2002, on the basis of Polish specifications and taking into account the EU directive, an XML-based IT procedure for the administrative documentation of environmental impact assessment that shall be implemented throughout the country. At the time the report was drawn up (1/2003), the prototype was completed and already subjected to an initial field test involving 150 users. The procedure was designed and developed on the basis of existing Polish administrative specifications as laid down in the Twinning Covenant "Strengthen Environmental Impact Assessment" There has been realized an XML solution based on open-source software with a native database and interfaces with existing applications. The solution includes several functions necessary for administration, such as a respective security concept and the possibility to reconstruct every process step (history log). Another focus of the paper is the discussion that led to the introduction of a native XML database.