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GDEP opinion about the possibility of withdrawal from carrying out the strategie em/ironmental assessment. Based on the GDEP position and bearing in mind that the Strategy is a document of a generał naturę (not indicating specific investments), which does not define a framework for the implementation of new Solutions or projects, it was decided to not carry out the strategie environmental assessment. The strategy is a point of reference for intervention at the supra-regional level within existing or planned support instruments - mostly national and regional operational programmes, subject to a fuli assessment provided for in this Act.

Ex-ante evaluation

The SDWP was subject to ex-ante evaluation, which was conducted on the order of the minister in charge of regional development during the period of November 2013-March 2014 by the consortium of Eu-Consult Sp. z o.o. and the Research Institute IPC Sp. z o.o. The aim of the study was to provide the highest quality of the document through the evaluation of internal consistency of the SDWP project, the evaluation of consistency of its provisions with the strategie documents in the field of development policy and the evaluation of complementarity with regional strategie documents. Also the performance system, monitoring and evaluation of the SDWP was subject to verification, including a set of indicators for monitoring.

The results confirmed that diagnosis and intervention directions accurately respond tothechallengesand socio-economicneedsofthe macro-region of Western Poland, and the proposed system will provide the right tools for the implementation and monitoring of the Strategy. The study showed that the aims and objectives of the SDWP are consistent with the objectives of strategie documents at the EU and national level and complementary with regard to regional strategies.

Some recommendations from the study were accepted, and their inclusion resulted primarily in additions to the diagnosis and broader descriptions of intervention directions. Detailed recommendations of a technical naturę relating to the performance system will be taken into account at the stage of operationalisation of the Strategy.

Public consultation

Public consultation, in accordance with the Act on the principles of development policy, was carried out from 11 February to 18 March 2014. Comments and recommendations submitted for the project came from both private individuals and institutions. In the group of 30 subjects which presented comments, the most active were local government units, entrepreneurs and their associations and trade unions and employers associations. The science community was also relatively active, including mainly the universities of Western Poland. Comments to