Order no. 269 of the Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests validating the general guide applicable to the stages of the environmental impact assessment procedure, the guide for environmental impact assessment in a cross-border context and other specific guidelines for different areas and categories of projects.

This Order validates the general guide applicable to the stages of the environmental impact assessment procedure, the guide for environmental impact assessment in a transboundary context and other specific guides for different areas and categories of projects.
The general guide contains instructions for all 3 stages of the environmental impact assessment process, as follows: (a) Methodological guide on the scoping stage, which also contains practical aspects regarding the initial assessment stage; (b) Methodological guide on the scoping stage and the preparation of the environmental impact report; and (c) Methodological guide on the quality analysis stage of the environmental impact report, which also contains the decision-making stage.
The methodological guides are intended primarily for the competent authority for environmental protection (ACPM) but can also be used by: (a) members of the technical analysis committee (CAT) and the interested public; (c) project owners; (d) competent experts who prepare Environmental impact report (RIM); and (e) teaching staff, in the process of training on the EIA process.
For projects requiring an environmental impact assessment, the competent authority prepares and sends to the project owner a guideline establishing the scope of the assessment and the level of detail of the information to be included in the EIA. The project owner, through the competent experts who are entitled to draw up the EIA, provides the EIA containing the minimum information required in the Directive. The competent authority presents the EIA to all relevant authorities and the interested public for review. This gives all interested parties the opportunity to submit comments on the project and its environmental effects. The competent authority examines the EIA and analyses the comments received in the previous stage from interested parties and issues a reasoned decision which will be part of the development consent the public is informed of the final decision in the EIA process. At all stages of the project (construction, operation, decommissioning), the project owner must monitor the significant adverse environmental effects identified in the EIA process, as well as the measures taken to minimize them.
If, during the initial assessment stage, the decision was made that the project requires the initiation of the environmental impact assessment procedure, the holder submits the presentation memorandum in electronic and paper format, at which point the classification stage effectively begins.
Description of the constructive elements of the project must contain information and data on: (a) nature of the environmental impact; (b) transboundary nature of the impact; (c) intensity and complexity of the impact; and (d) likelihood of the impact. Nature of the effect can be negative, positive or both. Type of effect can be direct, indirect, secondary, cumulative. Extent of effect can be local, regional, national, transboundary. Duration of effect can be temporary, short-term, long-term. Intensity of effect can be low, medium, high.