Suggestion 1: Kiev Protocol definition

“the evaluation of the likely environmental, including health, effects, of plans and programmes, and to the extent appropriate, policies and legislation, which comprises the determination of the scope of an environmental report and its preparation, the carrying out of public participation and consultations, and the taking into account of the environmental report and the results of the public participation and consultations in a plan or programme.”

References/Examples:

Kiev Protocol to the ESPOO Convention, Preamble, Art 2