The adoption of essential and legally binding terms of the Special Ecological Assessment Report and the Strategic Environmental Assessment Opinion issued by the Environmental Authority for the Akamas Local Plan should be binding, says the Council of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Cyprus.
The Department also decided to create a new Undergraduate Programme in Environmental Engineering.
Among other things, the Department, according to a statement, says that "in such an important political decision for the ecological future of the country, there should be full transparency and unhindered access to critical available information on the Akamas Local Plan itself."
It adds that "transparency is among the elementary principles of democracy and law in a European favoured nation - principles provided for and safeguarded by both national and European Laws and International Conventions and therefore the Departments, Agencies and Committees assessing the environmental impacts of the Local Plan should necessarily have access to the Local Plan itself for proper evaluation".
The University of Cyprus MMP also states that "the adoption of substantive and legally binding conditions of the Special Ecological Assessment Report and the Strategic Environmental Assessment Opinion issued by the Environmental Authority should be binding".
In conclusion, he notes that taking into account "all the major environmental problems that have emerged in the public sphere and the impact on communities and people, he has set as a high priority the institutional upgrading of Environmental Engineering in the country" and in this context he has approved the creation of a new Undergraduate Programme in Environmental Engineering at the Department of Environmental Engineering, the first programme in this branch of engineering in Cyprus.
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