Ministerial Order No. 118/2022 approving the Regulation on the Environmental Impact Assessment Process (AIA).

This Ministerial Order approves the Regulation on the Environmental Impact Assessment Process (EIA). This Directive on Independent Expert Reviewers of Environmental Impact Assessments for Category A+ Activities establishes the procedures relating to the registration and intervention of Independent Expert Reviewers (REI) in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process of Category A+ activities, regulated in Decree No. 54/2015 of 31 December. This Directive applies to: a) natural or legal persons, national or foreign, public and private, who intervene in the EIA process of category A+ activities; b) activities assessed as being category A+, under the terms of the EIA Regulation and that have significant impacts at national and/or cross-border level. The REI are experts in matters subject to EIA review, and in the exercise of their functions they are endowed with technical-scientific autonomy. It is mandatory to submit all documents from the EIA process of activities assessed as being category A+, for review by REI.