The new Industrial Emissions Directive

There are eight guiding principles that govern the entire EIA process:
The principles of EIA:

• 1. Participation – appropriate/timely access for interested parties
• 2. Transparency – open and accessible assessment decisions
• 3. Certainty – process/timing agreed in advance
• 4. Accountability – decision makers responsible for their actions and decisions
• 5. Credibility – undertaken with professionalism/objectivity
• 6. Cost effectiveness – environmental protection at the least cost to society
• 7. Flexibility – adaptable to deal efficiently with any proposal and decision situation
• 8. Practicality – information/outputs readily usable in decision making and planning