The Law aims at ensuring a high level of environment protection by preventing, minimizing, and compensating the environmental harms to be caused by projects not yet implemented, and enabling an open decision making process during the identification and the evaluation of the negative environmental impacts. It lays out the framework for the requirements, responsibilities, rules and procedures for the evaluation of the negative environmental impacts. The Law consists of the following Chapters: General Provisions, Procedures for Assessing the Environmental Impact, EIE Parties and Consultation, Access to Information and Confidential Data, Planning Authorities Decision-Making, Borderline environment EIE, EIE’s experts, Appeal and sanctions, and Final Provisions.
Albania · 2011-07-07