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Environmental impact assessment

- Actions aimed at the identification, analysis and accounting of direct, indirect and other consequences of the environmental impact of the planned economic and other activities in order to take a decision on the possibility or impossibility of its realization.

Protection of the environment - the activity of the authorized bodies of state power of the Russian Federation, bodies of state power of RF subjects, local authorities, public and other non-profit organizations, businesses and individuals, aimed at the preservation and restoration of the natural environment, rational use and reproduction of natural resources, prevention of the negative impact economic and other activities on the environment and the elimination of its consequences.

Environmental impact assessment

carried out in respect of the planned economic and other activities, as a result of which may have a direct or indirect impact on the environment, regardless of their organizational-legal forms of ownership of subjects of economic and other activities.

Environmental impact assessment is carried out in the development of alternative pre, including pre-investment and project documentation justifying the planned economic and other activities, with the participation of public associations.

Requirements for materials environmental impact assessment established by federal bodies of executive power in charge of public administration in the field of environmental protection.

In order to establish the compliance of the planned economic and other activities carried out environmental impact assessment requirements in the field of environmental protection. The procedure of this examination is set by the law on Environmental Impact Assessment.