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The Act on Providing Information on the Environment and Environmental Protection, Public Participation in Environmental Protection and on Environmental Impact Assessment dated 3 October 2008 (Journal of Laws no. 199, item 1227) (the “EIA Act”) is a normative act that principally governs the procedures for assessing the environmental impact of investments and public participation in such procedures, as well as issues related to providing information on the environment. In this respect, the EIA Act replaced the Environmental Protection Act of 27 April 2001 (uniform text: Journal of Laws of 2008 no. 25, item 150, as amended). The EIA Act implements Community legislation on environmental impact assessment, in particular Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (Official Journal L 175/40 of 5 July 1985, as amended). We set out below the issues which we find most important for investments in terms of environmental impact assessment procedures.
This document has been drawn up for the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency by:
The Law Firm Domański Zakrzewski Palinka
Authors:
Daniel Chojnacki, Senior Associate, Law Firm Domański Zakrzewski Palinka
Przemysław Zdrajkowski, Associate, Law Firm Domański Zakrzewski Palinka |
