Law No. 818 “On environmental audit”.

This Law establishes principles and modalities of conducting environmental audit and is aimed at prevention of negative environmental impact of projected economic activity. Basic principles of state policy in the sphere of environmental audit shall be: (a) assumption of ecological hazardousness of projected economic activity; (b) obligatoriness of state environmental audit; (c) obligatoriness of consideration of ecological safety in the process of environmental audit; (d) reliability and completeness of information submitted for environmental audit; (e) independence of experts; and (f) transparency and public participation. Environmental audit shall achieve the following goals: (a) efficiency assessment of measures adopted for the protection of public health, rational management of natural resources and environmental protection; (b) assessment of correct evaluation of ecological risks by the customer; and (c) assessment of possible ecologically negative impact on environment. Environmental audit shall be state and public. Period of validity of state environmental audit shall be limited to the period of project realization.