Law No. 10/2010 on Environmental Impact Assessment.

This Law, consisting of 8 Chapters and 3 Annexes, approves the Environmental Impact Assessment. It specifies the legal framework and regime to be satisfied by research, environmental and social impact assessment, as well as the requirements to be satisfied for obtaining natural resources use licensing through controls to be carried out on projects, programmes, public or private policies, which may impact on the natural environment and human health. It defines the general regulations of the administrative management related to the process, methodology and applicable techniques of the environmental impact assessment, in order to promote the sustainable development and a balanced management of the natural resources, guaranteeing a better preservation of the local environment. Annexes list authorised environmental activities, projects and sectors. This Law is divided as follows: General provisions (Chap. I); Components adn instruments of environmental assessment (Chap. II); Dissemination of components (Chap. III); Organization and compentence (Chap. IV); Tranboundaries impacts (Chap. V); Distribution of fines (Chap. VI); Final provisions (Chap. VII).