Abstract
The Environmental Impact Assessment ("EIA") Amendment Directive 97/11/EC was finally agreed in March 1997 and is due to be brought into force in Member States by 14 March 1999. With the new imperative of sustainable development since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, it was hoped that amendments proposed to the original EIA Directive 85/337/EEC would improve on the original legislation, reflecting EIA best practice throughout Europe and benefit from the lessons of EIA systems worldwide. While the Amendment Directive will bring about a number of significant improvements it falls short of bringing more radical changes, such as formal scoping, post-project monitoring and enhanced public participation (common in many other systems). Key changes are summarised in Table 1 which indicates where changes have occurred to the articles of the original Directive. This is supplemented by a more detailed discussion of the various issues raised.
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