Sede Electrónica

Plans and programmes adopted or approved by a public administration and whose preparation and approval are required by a legal or regulatory provision or by agreement of the Council of Ministers or the Governing Council of an Autonomous Community shall be subject to an ordinary strategic environmental assessment, when:

(a) Establish the framework for the future authorisation of projects legally subject to environmental impact assessment and relate to agriculture, livestock, forestry, aquaculture, fisheries, energy, mining, industry, transport, waste management, water resources management, occupation of the maritime-terrestrial public domain, use of the marine environment, telecommunications, tourism, urban and rural spatial planning, or land use; or

b) They require an assessment because they affect Natura 2000 Network areas in the terms provided for in Law 42/2007, of 13 December, on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

The cases legally provided for for simplified strategic environmental assessment will also be submitted when determined by the environmental body, at the request of the developer.

The promoter is obliged to submit an application for initiation, accompanied by the draft of the plan or programme and an initial strategic document with the content determined in article 18.1 of Law 21/2013.
Within twenty working days of receipt of the request for initiation, the environmental body may decide its inadmissibility, giving the promoter a prior hearing, for any of the following reasons:
a) If it unequivocally considers that the plan or programme is manifestly unfeasible for environmental reasons.
b) If it considers that the initial strategic document does not meet sufficient quality conditions.
c) If it has already rejected or has already issued an unfavourable strategic environmental statement in a plan or programme substantially similar to the one presented.

The environmental body will submit the draft plan or programme and the initial strategic document to consultations with the affected public administrations and interested persons for a period of 30 days, during which it will prepare and send to the promoter and the substantive body, the scoping document of the strategic environmental study, together with the replies received to the consultations carried out.
The environmental body will have a maximum period of two months, counted from the receipt of the request to initiate the ordinary strategic environmental assessment, to carry out the consultations and prepare a scoping document.

Taking into account the scoping document, the promoter shall prepare the strategic environmental study, which shall identify, describe and evaluate the possible significant effects on the environment of the implementation of the plan or programme, as well as reasonable technically and environmentally feasible alternatives, taking into account the objectives and geographical scope of the plan or programme.
The maximum period for the preparation of the strategic environmental study, after the completion of the public information and a new phase of consultations, will be fifteen months from the notification to the promoter of the scoping document.

Online submission

At the General Electronic Registry

Art. 14. 2 of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, establishes the obligatory nature of the electronic management for certain subjects as, for example, a) The juridical persons, b) Entities without legal personality, c) Those who carry out a professional activity for which compulsory membership is required, for the procedures and actions they carry out with the Public Administrations in the exercise of said professional activity. In any case, within this group, notaries and property and mercantile registrars shall be included. d) Those who represent an interested party who is obliged to relate electronically with the Administration, e) The employees of the Public Administrations for the procedures and actions that they carry out with them due to their condition of public employee, in the form in which it is determined by regulation by each Administration.

Place(s) for in-person submission

General Electronic Registry of the Administration of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria or through any of the means established in Article 134 of Law 5/2018, of 22 November, on the Legal Regime of the Government, the Administration and the Institutional Public Sector of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.

- Decree 73/2005, of 30 June, on the organic structure and modification of the lists of jobs in the Department of the Environment and subsequent modifications.

- Decree 54/2023, of 20 July, partially modifying the Basic Organic Structure of the Ministries of the Government of Cantabria.

- Decree 73/2005, of 30 June, on the organic structure and modification of the lists of jobs in the Department of the Environment and subsequent modifications.

- Decree 54/2023, of 20 July, partially modifying the Basic Organic Structure of the Ministries of the Government of Cantabria.

As it is a procedural act, there are no appeals directly through administrative channels (except in cases of inadmissibility), without prejudice to those that may be filed against the act approving the plan or programme, as well as, in judicial proceedings, those that may be lodged against the general provision that would have contemplated its preparation.