Environmental Impact Assessment Law.

This Law is enacted for the purpose of providing strict guidelines for the preparation, submission and examination of document of environmental impact assessment (EIS) , and the execution of the decisions concerning the EIS, thereby contributing to preventing environmental destruction and damage resulting therefrom and preserving a clean environment.
The EIS document shall be prepared by the planning institution, and the owner institutions, enterprises or organizations of a building (art.10). Institutions, enterprises, organizations and individuals that are engaged in the preparation of the EIS document shall conduct an exhaustive and extensive survey of the environmental conditions of the region concerned, specific features of planning, development and construction, and the environmental change that may entail therefrom (art.11). The contents of EIS document shall include: 1. Specific features of planning, development and construction; 2. Actual conditions of the area in which the planning, development and construction are to be carried out; and 3. Forecasts of the impact on environment of planning, development and construction; 4. Measures for preventing or reducing negative inipact (art.13).
The Law makes provisions, inter allia, for: Requirement of examination and approval of EIS document; Inspection of execution of EIS decision; Supervision and control; Administrative or penal liability; etc.