Environmental NGOs Suggest to RA Environment Minister to Organize Public Discussion of RA Draft Law "On Amendments to RA Law on Environmental Impact Assessment and Expertise"

Environmental NGOs Suggest to RA Environment Minister to Organize Public Discussion of RA Draft Law "On Amendments to RA Law on Environmental Impact Assessment and Expertise"

Inga Zarafyan, President of "EcoLur" Informational NGO, Oleg Dulgaryan, President of "Center for Community Mobilization and Support " NGO, and Nazeli Vardanyan, Director of "Armenia's Forests" NGO, sent a letter to RA Environment Minister Hakob Simidyan about "Environmental Impact Assessment" and examination" with the proposal to organize a public discussion of RA Draft Law "On Amendments to RA Law on Environmental Impact Assessment and Expertise".

The letter states, “The old version of the bill is published on the website www.e-draft.am for the publication of draft legal acts. The newly revised version of the bill is not available to the general public.

The new law should be such that it avoids the possibility of manipulating the opinions of people living in the zone of influence of n-projects, it should be clear, without ambiguous provisions.

Dear Mr. Simidyan,

We appeal to you to publish the draft of RA Law "On Environmental Impact Assessment and Expertise" on the website www.e-draft.am before sending it to RA government, so that the civil society can get acquainted with the amended version of the bill and organize a public discussion on the bill to hear the views of the stakeholders".

 

January 30, 2023 at 11:41