ANÁLISIS DE LA EVOLUCIÓN DE LA NORMATIVA ESPAÑOLA SOBRE EVALUACIÓN DE IMPACTO AMBIENTAL

Abstract

The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a legal-administrative procedure of which objective is the identification, prediction and interpretation of environmental impacts that a program or a project would produce on the environment if it is executed. In this process, prevention, correction and assessment of environmental impacts are done in order the program, plan or activity can be accepted, modified or rejected by the government, with adequate consultation to the administrations and private sector institutions that may be affected as well as the general public. The EIA was legislated in Spain by transposing Directive 85/337/EEC in Royal Decrees 1302/1986 and 1131/1988, which defined the stages of EIA, the content of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIS) and projects to be subject to the EIA process. It has been almost thirty years since the first Spanish legislation to the current Law 21/2013 of EIA and is still pending the transposition into Spanish law of Directive 2014/52/EC on the evolution of certain public and private projects on the environment. The motivation and the objective of the present communication is to make an analysis of the evolution of the legislation on environmental impact to know its current status and relationship to engineering of projects.