Decree No. 8/2017 approving the Regulation on Environmental Licensing. Pays/Territoire Guinée-Bissau Type du document Règlement Date 2017 Source FAO, FAOLEX Source d'origine Boletim Oficial, I Série, Supplement, No. 26. Sujet Environnement gén. Mot clé Autorisation/permis Droits/redevances relatives à l'environnement Normes environnementales Planification environnementale Infractions/sanctions Questions de procédures Politique/planification Normes Protection de l’environnement Aire géographique Afrique, Pays les moins avances, Atlantique Nord, Sahel, Petits états insulaires en développement, Afrique de l'Ouest Entry into force notes This Decree enters into force on the day after its publication. Résumé This Decree approves the Regulation on Environmental Licensing. This Regulation, consisting of 35 articles divided into four Chapters, aims at regulating the environmental licensing procedures of activities that, by their nature, location or size, are likely to have significant environmental and social impacts. In addition, it establishes in such cases the compulsory environmental licensing issued by the Competent Environmental Assessment Authority (AAAC), for all new projects and where changes are done to the projects already licensed, namely in case of expansion of the activity, expansion or alteration of the place, etc. It applies to projects that are likely to have significant environmental and social impacts. Any other projects, programmes, plans and policies not listed in Annexes I, II and III of Law No. 10/2010 of 24 September, but susceptible of causing a significant negative impact on the environment are subject to an environmental licensing. Offences and penalties are established by the attached sanctioning regime. Texte intégral Portugais Site web www.legis-palop.org Références - Législation Implemente Law No. 10/2010 on Environmental Impact Assessment. Législation | Guinée-Bissau | 2010 Mot clé: Lutte contre la pollution, Préservation de l'écosystème, Infractions/sanctions, EIA, Législation de base, Ouvrages Source: FAO, FAOLEX