Summary
The aim of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act Enforcement Rules is to prevent and mitigate the adverse impact of development activity on the environment in order to achieve the goal of environmental protection. For those development activities for which environmental impact assessments are required, the developer, when planning, shall, in accordance with environmental impact assessment working standards, conduct a Phase 1 environmental impact assessment and prepare an environmental impact statement. A forecast of the environmental impacts that could possibly be caused by the development activity ?and environmental protection strategies and alternate plans are to be included.