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CONTENTS
Proclamation No. 299/2002
Environmental Impact Assessment
Proclamation ........................................... Page 1951
PROCLAMATION NO. 299/2002
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ASSESSMENT PROLAMATION
WHEREAS, environmental impact assessment is used
to predict and manage the evironmental effects which a
proposed development activity as a result of its design sitting,
construction, operation, or an ongoing one as a result of its
modification or termination, entails and thus helps to bring
about intended development;
WHEREAS, assessment of possible impacts on the
environment prior to the approval of a public instrument
provides an effective means of harmonizing and integrating
environmental, economic, cultural and social considerations
into a decision making process in a manner that promotes
sustainable development,
WHEREAS, the impfementation of the environmental
rights and objectives enshrined in the Constitution would be
fostered by the prediction and management of likely adverse
environmental impacts, and the maximaization of their socio-
economic benefits.
WHEREAS, environmental impact assessment serves
to bring about administrative transparency and accountablity,
as well as to involve the public and, in particular, com-
munities in the planning of and decision taking on develop-
ments which may affect them and its environment;
NOW, THEREFORE, in accordance with Article 55(1)
of the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of
Ethiopia, it is hereby proclaimed as follows:
PART ONE
l. Short Title
This Proclamation may be cited as the "Environmental
Impact Assessment Proclamtion No. 299/2002.''
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2. Definitions
In this Proclamation:
l) "Authority" means the En\'.ironmental Protection
Authority;
2) "Environment" means the totality of all materials
whether in their natural state or modified or changed
by human; their external spaces and the interactions
which affect their quality or quanitity and the welfare
of human or other lving beings, including but not
restricted to, land atmosphere, whetehr and climate,
tors, and aesthetics;
3) "Environmental Impact Assessment" means the
methodology of identifying and evaluating in ad-
vance any effect, be it positive or negative, which
results from the implementation of a proposed
4) "Impact" means any change to the environment or
to its component that may affect human health or
safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water, climate, natural
or cultural heritage, other physical structure, or in
general, subsequenlty alter environmental, social,
economic or cultural conditions;
5) "Licensing Agency" means any organ of govern-
ment empowered by law to issue an ivestrnent permit
or a trade or operating license or a work permit or to
register a business orgnaization, as the case may be;
6) "Person" means any natural or juridical person;
7) "Pollutant" means any substance whether liquid,
solid or gas which directly or indirectly:
a) alters the quality of any part of the receiving
environment so as to affect its beneficial use
adversely, or
tionable odour, radioactivity, noise, vibration,
heat, or any other phenomenon that is hazardous
or potentially hazardous to human health or to
other living things.
8) "Project" mans any new development activity
under any category listed in any directive issued
pur~uant to this Proclamation, major expansion or
alteration or any existing undertaking, or any resum-
ption of work that had been discontinued;
9) "Proponent" means any organ of government if in
the public sector or any person if in the private sector
that initiates a project;
10) "Public instrument" means a policy, a strategy, a
programme, a law or an international agreement;
11) ''Region'' means any of those parts of Ethiopia
specified as Regions under Article 47(1) of the
Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of
Ethiopia and, for the purpose of this Proclamation,
includes the Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa Adminis-
trations;.
12) "Regional Environmental Agency" means any
regional government organ entrusted by that
Region with a responsibility for the protection or
regulation of the environment and natural resour-
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3. General Provisions
1) Without authorization from the Authority or from
the relevant regional environmental agency, no
person shall commence implementation of any
project that requires environmental impact assess-
ment as determined in a directive issued pursuant to
Article 5 of this Proclamation.
2) Without prejudice to Sub Article (1) of this Article,
when the Authority or the relevant regional environ-
mental agency believes that the possible impacts of
the project are insignificant, it may decide not to
require the concerned proponetn to conduct an
environmental impact assessment.
3) Any licensing agency shall, prior to issuing an
investment permit or a trade or an operating license
for any project, ensure that the Authority or the
relevant regional environmental agency has
authorized its implementation.
4) Approval of an environmental impact study report or
the granting of authorization by the authority or the
relevant regional environmental agency does not
exonerate the proponent from liability for damage.
5) Without prejudice to Sub Article (4) of this Article,
exemption from liability shall be granted only when
it is verified that it is the victim himself or a third
party for whom the proponent is not responsible that
has caused the damage.
4. Considerations to Determine Impact
l) The impact of a project shall be assessed on the basis
of the size, location, nature, cumulative effect with
other concurrent impacts or phenomena, trans-
regional effect, duration, reversibility or irrever-
sibility or other related effects of the project.
2) The Authority or the relevant regional environmen-
tal agency shall err on the side of caution while
determining the negative impact of a project having
both beneficial and detrimental effects, but which,
on balance,is only slightly or arguably beneficial,
and.thus determine that it is likely to entail a negative
significant impact.
5. Projects Requiring Environmental Impact Assessment
l) Every project which falls in any category listed in
any directive issued pursuant to this Proclamation
shall be subject to environmental impact assessment.
2) Any directive provided under Sub Article l of this
Article shall, . among other things, determine
categoris of:
(a) projects not likely to have negative impacts, and
so do not require environmental impact assess-
ment;
(b) Projects likely to have negative impacts and
thus require environmental impact assessment.
6. Trans-Regional Impact Assessment
1) A proponent shall carry out the environmental
impact assessment of a project that is likely to
produce a trans-regional impact in consultation with
the communities likely to be affected in any region.

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2) The regional environmental agency in the region
where a project with likely trans-regional impact is
being initiated shall ensure the submission of the
environmental impact study report of the project to
the Authority.
3) The Authority shall, prior to embarking on the
evaluation of an environmental impact study report
of a project with likely trans-regional impact, ensure
that the communities likely to be affected in each
region have been consulted and their views incor-
porated.
PART THREE
7, Duties of a Proponent
1) A proponent shall undertake an environmental im-
pact assessment, identify the likely adverse impacts
of his project, incorporated the means of their
prevention or containment, and submit to the
Authority or the relevant regional environmental
agency the environmental impact study report
together with the documents determined as neces-
sary by the Authority or the relevant regional
environmental agency.
2) A proponent shall ensure that the environmental
impact of his project is conducted and the environ-
mental impact study report prepared by experts that
meet the requirements specified under any directive
issued by the Authority.
3) The cost of undertaking an environmental impact
assessment and preparing an environmental impact
study report shall be borne by the proponent.
4) When implementing his project, a proponent shall
fulfill the tenns and condition of authorization.
8. Environmental Impact Study Report
1) An environmental impact study report shall contain
sufficient information to enable the Authority or the
relevant regional environmental agency to determine
whether and under what conditions the project shall
proceed.
2) An environmental impact study report shall contain,
as a minimum, a description of:
(a) the nature of the project, including the tech-
nology and processes to be used;
(b) the content and amount of pollutant that will be
released during impelemtation as well as during
operation;
(c) source and amount of energy required for
operatioin;
(d) information on likely trans-regional impacts;
(e) characteristics and duration of all the estimated
direct or indirect, positive or negative impacts.
(f) measures proposed to eliminate, minimize, or
mitigate negative impacts;
(h) contingency plan in case of accident; and
(i) procedures of self auditing and monitoring
during implementation and operation.
3) The Authority shall issue guidelines that determine
the elements necessary to prepare as well as evaluate
an environmental impact study report.

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9. Review of Environmental Impact Study Report
1) An environmental impact study report that is submit-
ted to the Authority or the relevant regional environ-
mental agency for review shall include a brief
statement summarizing the study in non-technical
terms as well as indicating the completeness and ·
accuracy of the information given in the study report.
2) The Authority or the relevant regional environmen-
tal agency shall, after evaluating an environmental
impact study report by taking into account any
public comments and expert opinions, within 15
working days:
(a) approve the project without conditions and
issue authorization if it is convinced that the
project will not cause negative impacts;
(b) approve the project and issue authorization with
conditions that must be fulfilled in order to
eliminate or reduce adverse !impacts .or reduce
adverse impacts to insignificance if it is convin-
ced that the negative impacts can be effectively
countered, or
(c) refuse implementation of the project if it is
convinced that the negative impact cannot be
stasifactoriey avoided
10. Validity of Approved Environmental Impact Study
Report
1) The Authorization of an environmental impact study
report shall expire if the project has not been
implemented according to the time frame set during
its authorization.
2) Any proponent who wishes to challenge the ap-
propriateness of the provision of Sub Article (1) of
this Article, to his project, may submit an application
to that effect to the Authority or the relevant regional
environmental agency, as may be appropriate.
3) Within 30 days from the receipt of an application
pursuant to Sub Article (2) of this Article, the
Authority or the relevant regional environmental
agel)cy shall,unless special circumstance so dictate,
decide whether to extend the validity of the report or
to order the revision or the redoing of the environ-
mental impact assessment.
PART FOUR
11. Occurrence of New Circumstance
If an unforeseen fact of serious implication is realized
after the submission of an environmental impact study
report, the Authority or the relevant regional environ-
mental agency may, as may be appropriate, order the
environmental impact assessment to be revised or to be
redone in order to address the implication.
12. Implementation Monitoring
1) The Authority or the relevant regional environmen-
tal age,ncy shall monitor the implementation of an
authorized project in order to evaluate compliance
with all commitments made by, and obligations
imposed on the proponent during authorization.

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2) When the proponent fails to implement the
authorized project in compliance with the commit-
ments he entered into or obligations imposed upon
him, the Authority or the relevant regional environ-
mental agency may order him to undertake specified
rectification measure.
3) Any other authorizmg or licensing agency shall, in
tandem with the Authority's or the relevant regional
environmental agency's decision to suspend or
cancel any authorization to implement a project,
suspend or cancel the license it may have issued in
favor of the project.
13. Environmental Impact Assessment ofpublic Instrument
1) A public instrument included in any category in any
directive issued pursuant to Sub Article (2) herein,
shall, prior to approval, be subject to environmental
impact assessment.
2) The Authority shall issue guidelines to determine
the category as of public instruments which are
likely to entail significant environmental impact
and the procedure of their impact assessment.
3) Any organ or government which initiates a public
instrument falling into any category which requires
environmental impact assessment as determined in
any directive issued pursuant to Sub Article (2) of
this Article shall ensure that it has been subjected to
environmental impact assessment.
4) Any government organ shall collaborate with the
Authority to enable the evaluation of likely en-
vironmental impacts of any public instrument
prepared by it.
14. Jurisdiction
1) The Authority shall be responsible for the
evaluation of an environmental impact study report
and the monitoring of its implementation when the
project is subject to licensing, execution or
supervision by a federal agency or when it is likely
to produce trans-regional impact.
2) The regional environmental agency in each region
shall be responsible for the evaluation and
authorization or any environmental impact study
report and the monitoring of its implementation if
the project is not subject to licensing, execution and
supervision by a federal agency and if it is unlikely
to produce trans-regional impact.
PART FIVE
15. Public participation
1) The Authority or the relevant regional environemn-
tal agency shall make any environmental impact
study report accessible to the public and solicit
comments on it.
2) The Authority or the relevant regional environmen-
tal agency shall ensure that the comments made by
the public and in particular by the communities
likely to be affected by the implementation of a
project are incorporated into the environmental
impact study report as well as in its evaluation.

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Federal Negarit Gazeta- No. 11 3"' December, 2002-Page 1957
16. Incentive
1) The Authority or the relevant regional environmen-
tal agency shall, within the capacity available to it,
support implementation of a project destined to
rehabilitate a degraded environment.
2) Without prejudice to Sub Article (1) of this Article
the Authority may, to the extent that its capacity
allows, provide any environmental rehabilitation or
pollution prevention or clean up project with finan-
cial and technical support to cover additional costs.
17. Grievance Procedures
l) Any person dissatisfied with the authorization or
monitoring or any decision of the Authority or the
relevant regional environmental agency regarding
the project may submit a grievance notice to the
head of the Authority or the relevant regional
environmental agency, as may be appropriate.
2) The decision of the head of the Authority or relevant
regional environmental agency shall, as provided
under Sub Article (1) above, be issued within 30
days following the receipt of the grievance.
PART SIX
18. Offences and Penalties
1) Without prejudice to the provisions of the Penal
Code, any person who violates the provision of this
Proclamation or of any other relevant law or direc-
tive commits an offence and shall be liable accordin-
gly.
2) Any person who, without obtaining authorization
from the Authority or the relevant regional environ-
mental agency, or makes false presentations in an
environmental impact assessment study report com-
mits an offence and shall be liable to a in of not less
than fifty thousand birr and not more than one
hundred thousand Birr.
3) Any person commits an offence if he fails to keep
records or to fulfill conditions of authorization
issued pursuant to this Proclamation and shall be
liable to a fine of not less than ten thousand Birr and
nbt more than twenty thousand Birr.
4) When a juridical person commits an offence, in
addition to whatever penalty it may be meted with,
the manager who failed to exercise all due diligence
shall be liabloe to a fine of not less than five thousand
Birr and not more than ten thousand Birr.
5) The court before which a person is prosecuted for an
offence under this Proclamation or regulations or
directives emanating from it, may, in addition to any
penalty it may impose, order the convicted person to
restore or in any other way compensate for the
damage inflicted.
 Federal Negarit Gazeta-No. 11 3"' December, 2002-Page 1958

)ltj:A,(111,}- PART SEVEN

Af. A\!- ~'t.'.1'1,9''f Miscellaneous Provisions
Iii· ~'tll'f't t'"'/a>-llJ-l- FAllJ'> 19. Power to Issue regulations
t'"'l.til-l-1!'1· ll"hC 0.-l- f.lJ't h'l'~ 11,J-"lI\ v-,);;t- The Council of Ministers may issue Regulations neces-
-,...,/Jt.'C t\"'l~t."I MLl\'1. t'IJ'~ ~'tfl'f't t\.flDllJ sary for the effective implementation of this
f.'fl\AII Proclamation.

71· ODODtf9''f1 t'"'/a>-11)-}- .P'AllJ't 20. Power to Issue Directives

The Authority may issue directives necessary for the
/Jt\P'AllJ~ f.lJ't h'l'~ 11,J-"ll\ IH;r T"llJt.'C t\"'l~t."I
effective implementation of this Proclamation.
MLl\'1. t'II'~ ODODl,J'9''f1 t\.J'IDll) f,'f.l\AII
21. Duty to Cooperate
71li· t'DD,J-/JllC "l~:r
Any person shall have the duty to cooperate in the
t\ll.lJ ,....,,~ h,J-1/JllC "'l't?fa>-9" (la>- t'DD,f-(J{lC "l~:r implemlentation of this Proclamation.
ht\11-l-u
22. "inapplicable Laws
711· TL~"'l. }-l- t't\Nfm- m1'f Any law or practice inconsistent with this Proclamation
hll.tJ h'I'~ :>C ,J-:J't.t t'II'} ,n"I ID,(',11" h1Pt-C lllttJ is inapplicable regarding matters provided herein.
h'l'~ a>-il'I' 11,J- 00 t\h-1:-l- 1--'ll"''f l\f, TL~"'l.H 23. EffectiveDate
hVf t.m-11"1 This Proclamation shall come into force as of the 3n1 day
tE· M'~ t'"'l.O'i'll-l- 'I.ti. of December, 2002.

f.tJ ,....,,~ M>ic 71§ ,n Il!l'.i~ q.11" 'f.11"1!' roe; f.ll''i'A" Done at Addis Ababa, this 3n1 day of December, 2002.

M.il MIJ "1-'IC 3'§ .,., nm~ q,9"

GIRMA W/GIORGIS
"IC"'/ IDA~1. l"'C'l.il PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL
t'h.-l-l"'A-J' 4'..~t-1\'C ,11.'l"hMI.J''C tT,flll.h DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF ETHIOPIA
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BERHANENA SELAM PRINrING ENTERPRISE