Environmental Impact Assessment - Safeguarding Development in Georgia?
Tbilisi. Social Justice Center publishes the survey “Environmental Impact Assessment - Safeguarding Development in Georgia?.”
“It is true that even a perfect legislation does not guarantee decisions that fully protect social and environmental interests when economic activities are being planned, however, if there are any shortcomings in the legislation that create a risk of making unscrupulous or incompetent decisions, then the risk of neglecting public interests is higher. Thus, the purpose of this study is to identify specific shortcomings in the Environmental Assessment Code and to recommend relevant legislative changes.
This study does not have an ambition of fully analyzing the compliance of Georgia’s Environmental Assessment Code with the EU EIA Directive and the Aarhus Convention, nor does it claim to be fully analyzing the shortcomings in the Code”.
Source: socialjustice.org.ge
