Traduction de «Environmental impact assessment procedure » (Anglais → Français) :

8. Calls for an extension of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive to cover all offshore projects phases (exploratory and operational) and calls for specific requirements for EIAs in the case of deep water, complex wells, challenging drilling conditions, and transfer of oil/gas by underwater pipelines located on/under the seabed; considers, furthermore, that the Commission should ensure that EIAs for offshore projects approved by national authorities also cover the procedures operators must follow during decommissioning; calls on the Commission to reassess the legal provisions on EIAs and lay down therein that environmental impact assessment procedures must be ...[+++]entrusted to experts who are independent of the client;

26. Calls for an extension of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive to cover all offshore projects phases (exploratory and operational) and calls for specific requirements for EIAs in the case of deep water, complex wells and challenging drilling conditions, and transfer of oil/gas by underwater pipelines located on/under the seabed; considers, furthermore, that the Commission should ensure that EIAs for offshore projects approved by national authorities also cover the procedures operators must follow during decommissioning; calls on the Commission to reassess the legal provisions on EIAs and lay down therein that environmental impact assessment procedures must be ...[+++]entrusted to experts who are independent from the client;

While launching the tendering procedure before the environmental impact assessment procedure was completed is not an example of best practice, the EIA directive does not include specific requirements on this issue. The only obligation imposed by the Directive is that the authorisation of the project cannot be granted before the assessment procedure is finished.

Nonetheless, it means that we must wait until the environmental impact assessment procedure has been concluded, as is required by the law, in order to be able to discuss compliance with EU legislation and policy, the impact, the risks, the measures and also to decide on the terms which must be imposed on the project owner.

(b) the fact that the project is subject to an environmental impact assessment procedure and, where relevant, the fact that Article 7 applies.

The amendment seeks to clarify the difference between the environmental impact assessment procedure and the development consent procedure: the former can be used as a tool in the latter, while the latter concludes with a decision concerning the development consent.