The Presiding Officer will draw up a report including the

viewpoints presented during the Public Consultation and present it to the Director General.

The Public

Consultation must be held in a convenient and accessible site for persons who may be affected by the project.

Public participation is obligatory for category A activities, and is optional for category B. However it should always take place whenever the activities imply: permanent or

temporary

displacement of populations or communities;

displacement of goods or restriction on the use of natural resources.

An opportunity must be given to the

proponent to make a presentation and

respond to questions raised during the Public Consultation.

The public

participation process should result in a Final Report.

The person chairing the Public Consultation, in collaboration with the NEMC, will determine the procedural rules of the Public

Consultation.

This person will also be responsible for drawing up a report including the viewpoints

presented during the Public Consultation and then present it to the Director General.

Is the EIA

Report altered in function of the comments

received during the Public

Consultation?

No legal provisions exist for this

purpose.

Feedback from the consultations made shall be incorporated in the EIA.

No legal provisions exist for this

purpose.

No legal provisions exist for this purpose.

Varies from Member State to Member State.

Is there a

systematic

decision-making process?

NEMA will decide upon the project’s environmental

acceptability on the basis of the

considerations taken from the revision process.

The NEMC may create inter-sectorial

consultative

committees, at the national level and, when suitable at the level of the Local

Government Authority, in order to provide advice during revision of the EIA report.

The Technical

Evaluation

Committee (TEC) will revise the EPDA and the EIA report, or revise the SES.

DEAT decides on the environmental acceptability of the project on the basis of conclusions withdrawn during the revision process.

On the basis of

existing practice, the Minister responsible for the Environment will decide upon the project’s

environmental

acceptability on the basis of conclusions reached during the revision process.

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