Based on Part One of Clause 33 of the Regulation on the Procedure for Organizing and Conducting Public Discussions of Draft Environmentally Significant Decisions, Environmental Reports on Strategic Environmental Assessment, Environmental Impact Assessment Reports, Taking into Account Adopted Environmentally Significant Decisions and Amending and Supplementing Certain Resolutions of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus, approved by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of June 14, 2016 No. 458, a commission has been established at the Department of Tourism to prepare and conduct public discussions of the environmental report on the strategic environmental assessment of the draft National Tourism Development Strategy of the Republic of Belarus until 2035.
The environmental report has been prepared in accordance with the Regulation on the Procedure for Conducting Strategic Environmental Assessment, the requirements for the composition of the environmental report on strategic environmental assessment, and the requirements for specialists carrying out strategic environmental assessment, approved by the Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus of January 19, 2017 No. 47.
The environmental report is aimed at ensuring the consideration and integration of environmental factors in the process of developing the draft National Tourism Development Strategy of the Republic of Belarus until 2035 and the corresponding resolution on the approval of the Strategy, including making decisions in support of environmentally sound and sustainable development.
The Department of Tourism of the Ministry of Sport and Tourism recommends that participants of public discussions submit their comments and proposals on the environmental report on the SEA of the draft National Tourism Development Strategy of the Republic of Belarus until 2035 to the email address tourism@mst.gov.by in written and electronic form according to the sample in the notice from June 8 to July 8, 2020.