ID: 1914
Presenting Author: Naja Marot
Session: 529 - Strategic, Not Generic: The Next Generation of Regional Assessments
Status: pending
Development of Territorial Impact Assessment approach in participative manner is presented. The assessment checks the compliance of the draft policies on various governance level with the ex
Territorial Impact Assessment has been among the EU-wide assessment for around 20 years. The core idea of the assessment is to check if the policies or legislation are territorial sensitive and if they are about to cause imbalanced impacts in various territories, regions included. The ground for introducing the TIA was the adoption of an umbrella EU document to steer the territorial development among the member countries, however, today, some of the EU countries are integrating the assessment into the policy/legislative making process. The contribution builds on the example of Slovenia, where the ministry, responsible for spatial planning, has ordered a tool to support sectoral policy makers in their endeavours. The main idea of the tool is to check the compliance of the draft sectoral policy with the existing national spatial development strategy. The tool was built in multiple phases by consulting the stakeholders, so, the potential users, throughout the process. Starting with the complex, more quantitative assessment on the paper, the potential users helped to shape it to the format that they were willing to use and understood considering their human and time capacities. The end result was a digital version of the tool that can be transferred and applied in every-day policy process, not only on the national level, but, also, on the lower level. In addition to this, the tool promotes the territorial sensitivity among the policy makers, and as they confirmed multiple times, encourages them to think about regional impacts of their policies.
Naja Marot is an associate professor at the University of Ljubljana (SI) with the background in spatial planning. She has experience in policy analysis and Territorial Impact Assessment.