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Act to amend the Act relative to procedures of environmental impact assessment (No. 59 of 1995).

Country/Territory
Finland
Document type
Legislation
Date
1995
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Finlands Författningssamling, 1995, p. 121.
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
EIA Institution
Geographical area
Arctic, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

The amendments of the principal Act concern the supervision of the regional environment centres (sect. 16), the right of appeal against decisions (sect. 17), and enforcement measures (sect. 18). The amendments are made in consequence of the transfer of tasks from the county councils to the recently introduced Regional Environment Centres.

Full text
Swedish

References - Legislation

Amends

Act relative to procedures of environmental impact assessments (No. 468 of 1994).

Legislation | Finland | 1994 (2005)

Keyword: Basic legislation, EIA, Access-to-information, Transboundary effects, Biodiversity, Climate change

Source: FAO, FAOLEX