Strategic Environmental Assessment of the implementation of the Multiannual Adaptation Strategy of the Malagasy Sugar Sector

Full description of the project

Madagascar is one of the 18 Sugar Protocol countries affected by the reform of the European Union’s sugar regime (Lomé V Agreement of 1975). As such, the country benefits from the accompanying measures provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No. 266/2006.

In accordance with the latter, Madagascar has submitted to the Commission a comprehensive, multi-year National Adaptation Strategy for the Sugar Sector (SNASS) for the period 2006 to 2014.

In response to the national strategy and in support of its implementation, the European Commission has adopted a Community strategy document, indicating its intervention logic, which aims to facilitate investments and support the strengthening of the competitiveness of the sugarcane sector.

The objective of this SEA is to identify, describe and assess the significant and likely environmental impacts that may result from the implementation of the National Strategy for the Adaptation of the Sugar Sector and that should be taken into account in its implementation or revision and in the implementation of the support to be provided by the EC.

The SEA should confirm and complement the findings and the main lines of the national strategy on environmental issues.