The New EIA Regime: Assessment of Foreseeable Legislative Impacts

Authors

  • Maria Alexandra Aragão Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra
  • José Eduardo Figueiredo Dias Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra
  • Maria Ana Barradas Câmara Municipal de Leiria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-2387_5_5

Abstract

Since the adoption of a Community Directive on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in 1997, it was known that the EIA regime in Portugal would have to change.

Three years later, the change arrived. On 3 May, Decree-Law no. 69/2000 repealed all existing legislation, corrected flaws in the previous legal regime, and introduced some innovations.

It is these innovations of the law that the authors analyse: some that place us at the forefront of the European field; others that expose us to serious risks of a repetition of the judicial incident which, in 1997, took Portugal to Luxembourg to stand in the dock before the Court of Justice...

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Published

2000-01-01

Issue

No. 05 (2000): Urbanism, Territorial Order and Environment Studies Center Law Review

Section

Doctrine

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Copyright (c) 2000 Maria Alexandra Aragão, José Eduardo Figueiredo Dias, Maria Ana Barradas

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