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Review on the Latest Practice in Environmental Evaluation and Strategic Environmental Assessment on Transportation Policies and Actions (2007) Final Reference Document This Reference Document is prepared to review the current practice in Environmental Evaluation and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) on Transportation Policies and Actions by EDMS (Hong Kong) Ltd commissioned by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) in June 2006. EDMS (Hong Kong) Limited is responsible and accountable for the content of this report. Key Objectives The main objectives of this study is to review the latest international practice on environmental evaluation and SEA on transportation policies and actions, including actual examples, in countries and development co-operations as follows. Environmental evaluation and the SEA process to be reviewed shall include both the statutory and the non-statutory systems, as well as both the evaluation tools and the overall process. Countries to be reviewed shall include Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Mainland China, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, United Kingdom (including Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and UK), USA, Japan, Macau SAR, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Portugal, Pakistan, and South Africa. The review shall also include the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme, and United Nations Environmental Programme. Examples of the environmental evaluation/SEA on transportation policies and actions have been given to show how the environmental evaluation/SEA process and evaluation tools are applied and the outcome of the application in the country; Background SEA is a systematic process for evaluating strategic environmental implications of proposed policies, plans and programmes that is widely adopted in many countries as a tool to facilitate early integration of environmental consi