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"UN Economic Commission for Europe: Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991" [2005] ELECD 273; in Tully, Stephen (ed), "International Documents on Corporate Responsibility" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)

Book Title: International Documents on Corporate Responsibility

Editor(s): Tully, Stephen

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781843768197

Section: Chapter 50

Section Title: UN Economic Commission for Europe: Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context, 1991

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

50. UN Economic Commission for Europe:
Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact
Assessment in a Transboundary Context,
1991

Commentary: The Convention (30 ILM 800 (1991), entry into force 1997)
contemplates obligations of notification and consultation for all major projects likely
to have significant adverse transboundary environmental impacts. Article 5 provides
for consultation with affected Parties concerning the potential transboundary impact
of proposed activities on the basis of environmental impact assessments without
undue delay. Appendix I lists activities including crude oil refineries, thermal power
stations, nuclear and chemical installations, constructing motorways, oil and gas
pipelines, trading ports, waste-disposal, large dams and reservoirs, pulp and paper
manufacturing, major mining projects and offshore hydrocarbon production. The
criteria used to determine the environmental significance of activities not identified by
Appendix I includes their size, location and effects (Appendix III). Appendix II outlines
the content of environmental impact assessments and Appendix IV envisages an
inquiry procedure providing inter alia for information confidentiality. See further, the
2003 Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment under the Espoo Convention
(www.unece.org/env/eia/documents/protocolenglish.pdf). See also, EC Directives
85/337/EEC & 97/11/EC concerning Environmental Impact Assessment for individual
projects and Directive 2001/42/EC concerning Strategic Environmental Assessment
for plans, programmes and policies.




Article 1: Definitions
For the purposes of this Convention,

(ii) `Party of origin' means the Contracting Party or Parties to this Convention under
whose jurisdiction a proposed activity is envisaged to take place;
(iii) `Affected Party' means the Contracting Party or ...