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Law No. HO-110-N “On Environmental Impact Assessment and Testing”.

Pays/Territoire
Arménie
Type du document
Législation
Date
2014 (2023)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Sujet
Environnement gén.
Mot clé
Législation de base Protection de l’environnement EIA Évaluation/gestion des risques Effet transfrontière Participation du public Responsabilité/indemnisation Éco-audit Commerce/industrie/sociétés Risques Collectivité locale Monitorage Collecte de données/déclarations Accès-à-l'information
Aire géographique
Asie, CEI (Communauté des États indépendants), Europe, Europe et Asie Centrale, Nations en développement sans littoral, Asie Occidentale
Entry into force notes
This Law enters into force on the date of its official publication.
Résumé

This Law regulates strategic ecological assessment, environmental impact assessment, transboundary impact assessment, state environmental impact assessment, public notification, public hearings, provision of state expert opinion, relations concerning the rights and responsibilities of initiators in the processes of examination and implementation of planned activities. Impact on the environment shall be intended the change of the environment or any of its components as a result of the operation of the founding document or the implementation of the planned activity. Transboundary impact shall be intended impact on the environment in the territory under the jurisdiction of the state, which will occur as a result of the operation of the founding document or the implementation of the planned activity, and whose physical source is wholly or partially in the territory under the jurisdiction of another state. Environmental impact assessment shall be intended the process of studying the potential impact of the planned activity on the environment as a result of the activity planned by the initiator. The principles of assessment and testing are: (a) consideration of the potential impact of the planned activity on the environment; (b) prevention, reduction and exclusion of harmful impact on the environment as a result of the implementation of the founding document or planned activities; (c) comprehensive consideration of impacts, including transboundary impacts, during the assessment; (d) provision of consideration of alternative options for implementation of the planned activity, including exclusion of the activity implementation; (e) ensuring completeness, reliability and scientific validity of reports; (f) ensuring the validity, legality, and objectivity of the state examination conclusion; (g) ensuring the transparency, publicity, and participation of the interested public in the assessment and testing processes; and (h) preservation and strengthening of possible positive effects on the environment as a result of the testing, prevention, reduction, exclusion of negative effects and provision of compensation for damage to the environment or restoration of the environment. The issues of assessment and examination are: (a) ensuring sustainable development based on environmental safety requirements and environmental impact limitations; (b) ensuring the maintenance of the provisions of the draft of the founding document and the positive effects of the planned activity, prevention, reduction or exclusion of harmful effects and their consequences; and (c) assessment of possible risks of impact on the environment in case of emergency situations. This Law establishes competencies of the government, of the authorized body, territorial bodies and local self-government in the field of EIA and testing. Assessment and testing are performed before the implementation of the planned activity. Without a positive conclusion of the state environmental audit, the actual implementation of the planned activity is subject to termination, with the restoration of the initial state by the person who actually performed the planned activity. EIA is carried out by the initiator, if he has the appropriate license or through an individual entrepreneur or legal entity with the appropriate license. In the EIA stage: (a) the potential impact of the planned activity on the environment is assessed; (b) alternative versions of the solutions provided for in the design document of the planned activity are identified and substantiated, including the (zero) option of abandoning the planned activity, and their impact on the environment, socio-economic condition is evaluated; (c) an environmental management plan is developed, which must be fixed in the design document, including an environmental impact monitoring program in order to prevent, reduce or exclude environmental impact; (d) the degree of impact is taken into account, based on the geographical location of the affected area, the population, the probability of impact, complexity, degree, duration, frequency, and the possible total degree of the already existing and predicted impacts; (e) during the assessment, the monetary impact on the environment as a result of the implementation of other activities in the area of the planned activity is taken into account.

Texte intégral
Arménien
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