SUMMARY The results of the FA STU graduates are comparable with the foreign graduates’ results. There is however a lack in decision making and in speaking foreign languages, which is partly caused by the educational system at the high-school level. To form a new model of curriculum, it is necessary to follow traditions as well […]

SUMMARY The author of this article presents her observations and opinions about the assessment process by ty Act no. 127/1994 on environmental impact assessment. She had an opportunity to take part in several roles – as a documentation elaborator, review expert or within the public. As is described, in each position it was inevitable and […]

SUMMARY The water work of Slatinka is in the contribution illustrated as an example of practical experience gauned by the firm Ekospol (from the town of Banská Bystrica) that was the documentation elaborator in the environmental impact assessment process. The process related to the water work began in 1993, i.e. before passing the Act, by […]

SUMMARY The article is devoted to a brief evaluation of the quality of the current state in implementing environmental assessment to the principal development conceptions and legislation. We define in succession the main principles of the environmental assessment process at the strategic level and summarise first experience from implementing this process in practice. In conclusion, […]

SUMMARY The activities of the Slovak Agency of the Environment are within the environmental impact assessment process aimed at: – elaboration special basic documents for the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic in single stages of the assessment process, – rendering advisory service, providing information on the environment that are inevitable for the […]

SUMMARY Despite the fact that the Act No. 127/1994 on environmental impact assessment has become operative only since September 1, 1994, the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic already supervised approximately 270 cases of the assessment process at the project level and currently it is supervising further such 80 cases. The presented paper […]