Fostering Effective and Inclusive

Governance for Sustainable Development and Protecting the Planet

Summary
It was a challenge for Ukraine to establish a transparent environmental impact assessment
mechanism. Ukrainian EIA system must be in compliance with obligations under the international
agreements and also achieve a list of goals on national level such as:
- the EIA system should minimize corruption risks;
- to ensure public participation in decision-making process
- to ensure access to information
- to create transparency mechanism for implementing the rights to access information and
participation.
For these purposes, the new Ukrainian law On EIA established the obligation of the authority to
create a public registry of EIA http://eia.menr.gov.ua/

Situation
Before the establishing EIA procedure in Ukraine, we had a system of state ecological expertise.
System of expertise had many gabs, among them:
- all information was closed, access to project documentation was possible only for request;
- information was not systematized, which complicated access to it and, as a result, created
obstacles for public participation in decision making process;
- there was no public control over the quality of project documentation;
- decisions had been made behind the «closed doors»

Strategy
The EIA Registry started to work at December 2017, when Law On EIA took into force.
Since that time:
- More than 2000 EIA procedures carry out;
- Registry provides the procedure online, without direct contact between the developer and
the authority;
- the Registry contains all the information created in the EIA procedure (from notification to
EIA conclusion);
- the dates of public hearings and terms of public consultations also published in Registry; -
all information included to the Registry is free; Click or tap here to enter text.