Summary
The purposes of this law are: (1) to protect [and] promote environmental quality and public health through the prevention, reduction, and control of pollution, (2) to assess the environmental impact of all proposed projects prior to the issuance of a decision by the Royal Government, (3) to ensure the rational and sustainable conservation, development, management, and use of the natural resources of the Kingdom of Cambodia, (4) to encourage and enable the public to participate in environmental protection and natural resource management, (5) to suppress any acts that cause harm to the environment. The Ministry of Environment shall collaborate with concerned ministries to require the owners or responsible persons of factories, pollution sources, industrial sites, or sites of natural resource development activity: (1) to install or use monitoring equipment, (2) to provide samples, (3) to prepare or maintain and submit [for] review records and reports.