The topic of this thesis is Environmental Impact Assessment and Public Participation. The structure of the thesis consists of six chapters that are further divided into several sections and subsections. The first chapter introduces the concept of EIA in reference to the principles upon which the concept is based on. The following chapter addresses a number of international and EU legal documents related to the concept of EIA and its legal regulation. The third and fourth chapter should be considered as a fundamental part of the thesis, which focuses on the legal regulation of the concept of EIA in the Czech Republic and the Act No. 39/2015 Coll., amending the act on environmental impact assessment. The last chapter summarises and evaluates the findings of the previous chapters.

The main goal of this diploma thesis, called Environmental impact assessment (EIA) in european law, is to explain the procedure of environmental impact assessment. Emphasis of this diploma thesis is placed on legislation dealing with the environmental impact assessment and its development. The diploma thesis is divided into five chapters, further it contains the introduction, the conclusion, the list of abbreviation, the list of pictures, attachement and the list of literature. Chapter one defines the environmental impact assessment itself and distinguishes the project (EIA) and strategic (SEA) assessment. Chapter two describes the international law concerning the environmental impact assessment. The most important part of this diploma thesis is chapter three, which contains the analysis of european and czech legislation regarding to the environmental impact assessment. The czech legislation is then compared to legislation of other member states of the EU. Chapter four characterizes the procedure of environmental impact assessment within the Natura 2000. Chapter five analyses the case Temelín with respect to environmental impact assessment.

El presente trabajo trata sobre la identificación, catalogación, evaluación, protección y utilización de los recursos de la geodiversidad. Uno de los principales problemas que afecta al tratamiento conjunto del patrimonio geológico es el alto grado de subjetividad. En el presente trabajo se incluye un primer inventario de LIG para la región Cantabria, que se ha utilizado para el desarrollo de las fases sucesivas de evaluación, protección, puesta en valor de los LIG y para el cálculo de los impactos producidos por acciones humanas. Se han desarrollado procedimientos de evaluación de la calidad de los LIG a través de métodos directos (basados en el juicio de expertos) e indirectos (paramétricos) sobre la base de la identificación de criterios de evaluación, de parámetros medibles y de la definición de unos "modelos de calidad". Por medio de análisis factorial, se ha identificado un conjunto reducido de criterios que permite reproducir en un 83% los resultados obtenidos utilizando todos los criterios. Sobre la base de los resultados se han elaborado algunos ejemplos de acciones encaminadas a la protección, gestión y puesta en valor de los elementos de la geodiversidad de Cantabria. / The present work addresses issues related to the identification, cataloguing evaluation, protection and utilisation of geodiversity's resources. One of the main difficulties to carry out such tasks lies in the subjectivity. The work presented here includes an initial inventory of sites of geological interest in the region of Cantabria. Then, a group of sites of geomorphologic interest has been selected to make comparisons between different evaluation methods, determine the degree of coincidence between the ranks of classifications obtained and make recommendations on the most advisable procedures. These methods make it possible to apply transparent, clearly defined criteria which can provide replicable results if applied by different operators and can therefore be subject to external test and scrutiny. The above methods can provide good results using only six parameters that express three significant qualities of sites: scientific interest or intrinsic quality; potential for use; threats for conservation. The type of evaluation methods described has been applied to design a method for the incorporation of geosites into the EIA process. In order to contribute to the valorisation of geodiversity's values, a series of specific proposals are presented for the protection and use of sites of geologic interest in Cantabria.