ABSTRACT
Annex I of the EIA Act specifies those projects for which EIA is mandatory; this includes most of the project types in Annex I of Directive 85/337/EEC. Annex II of the Act deals with smaller-scale projects (basically those contained in Annex II of the Directive). For these Annex II projects, EIA is not required, although formal public consultation procedures must be followed. The EIA Act includes provisions covering scoping, EIS content, formal expert review of the EIS, public consultation and post-project auditing. Some of these provisions go beyond those required by Directive 85/337.
