ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT
June 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLMEMBER governments of the European Union now have a legal duty to hold full-scale environmental impact assessments of proposed hotel and tourism projects, when they have called them in from local authorities to make national decisions on planning applications.The EU Council of Ministers has formally adopted a new environmental impact assessment directive that explicitly states for the first time that such inquiries must be held before national planning approvals are made for tourism projects, be they new hotels, restaurants or leisure ...
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