The conference will provide a forum for discussion among planners and impact assessment professionals, government officials, researchers and NGO leaders. The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe will offer a limited number of subsidized registrations to participants from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, and Turkey. Interested applicants should register their interest by 1 April 2005 to Ausra Jurkeviciute ([email protected]). The conference will be held on the premises of the Czech Agricultural University in Prague (www.sic.czu.cz/sal_EN.html). This SEA conference is a special 2005 global IAIA thematic meeting separate from IAIA’s 24th Annual Conference Event, “Ethics and Quality Assessment,” which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA 31 May - 3 June 2005.