Those internationally recognised valuation standards contain high level principles which require creditors, amongst others, to adopt and adhere to adequate internal risk management and securities management processes, which include sound appraisal processes, to adopt appraisal standards and methods that lead to realistic and substantiated property appraisals in order to ensure that all appraisal reports are prepared with appropriate professional skill and diligence and that appraisers meet certain qualification requirements and to mai ...[+++]ntain adequate appraisal documentation for securities that is comprehensive and plausible.

The minimum requirements for the evaluation plan should enable the Commission to verify that the evaluation activities and resources foreseen in the plan are realistic and will allow the Member States to comply with the evaluation requirements contained in Article 54(1) and (2) and Article 56(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013.

4. Ex ante evaluations shall incorporate, where appropriate, the requirements for strategic environmental assessment set out in Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council taking into account climate change mitigation needs.

4. Ex ante evaluations shall incorporate, where appropriate, the requirements for strategic environmental assessment set out in Directive 2001/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council taking into account climate change mitigation needs.

The development of the 2030 climate policy will, without prejudice to the outcome of the public consultation launched by the Green Paper “A 2030 framework for climate and energy policies” endeavour to take into account, inter alia, the international competitiveness of the European industry as well as the specific features of certain industries and progress in the global climate change negotiations as well as an assessment of all relevant CO2 emissions in the EU, – ensure that the assessment of the risk of carbon leakage to be done in the context of the new carbon leakage list is performed in an open ...[+++] and transparent manner in accordance with the requirements of the ETS Directive taking into account the specific features of certain industries and the impacts of electricity costs on their competitiveness, – shortly propose to add the manufacturing of certain forged ferrous products to the list of sectors deemed exposed to carbon leakage for direct costs. – promote best practice in energy efficiency, based on the results of energy audits to be carried out by companies in compliance with the Energy Efficiency Directive[56], as well as on European and international studies, – promote energy efficiency investments (new boilers for power generation, gas recovery in steelmaking, Top-Pressure Recovery Turbine Plant (TRT), waste heat recovery), – consider eco-design requirements for recyclability and dismantling in order to ensure easier separation of steel suitable for recycling from relevant products.

The Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive [42] requires an environmental assessment to be carried out for certain plans and programmes including the area of land use, which should have a beneficial result for soil protection.