SEA Action Plan

The National SEA Forum the SEA statutory environmental authorities in Ireland jointly developed an 2021-2025 SEA Action Plan to implement the key priority recommendations of the second SEA Effectiveness Review. The implementation of this Action Plan is dependent on a shared responsibility in delivering the key priority recommendations. This action plan and its progress update can be consulted at the links below.

SEA Action Plan 2021 - 2025

SEA Action Plan 2021- 2025 - Progress Update - March 2024.

Previous to this, in 2017 the EPA, in association with the other four SEA environmental authorities, initiated a review of the progress made in the delivery of the various actions and recommendations in the SEA Effectiveness Review in Ireland Action Plan 2012–2016. The findings of this review were summarised in the following document: 

SEA Effectiveness Review in Ireland - Action Plan 2012-16

SEA Action Plan 2012-2016 - Progress Update 2018. 

To drive further progress, a SEA Action Plan for the time period 2018- 2020 (SEA Effectiveness Review Action Plan 2018-2018) was also published. Progress was reviewed in 2021: 

SEA Action Plan 2018-2020 

SEA Action Plan 2018-2020 - Progress Update 2021