The environmental impact assessment (EIA) is an environmental policy instrument of environmental precaution with the aim of checking environmentally relevant projects for possible environmental impacts before they are approved. As a rule, it is limited to reviewing the effects on the environmentally relevant objects of protection. The Environmental Impact Assessment Act (UVPG) contains a list of projects that require an EIA. A total of 149 types of projects are listed, including production and industrial facilities, landfills, mining and energy, and transmission lines.

M&P is currently supporting various operators of landfills and quarries in carrying out environmental impact assessments in the context of expansion or modification projects.

The first step is the preparation of a scoping report in which the project and the site with its surroundings are described with regard to the individual objects of protection. The scoping report also contains a proposal for the further investigation programme for the environmental impact assessment, which is then coordinated with the competent authorities and other stakeholders at a scoping meeting.

The actual EIA report then assesses the impacts of the project on the protected assets of humans and human health, plants, animals, biodiversity, land, climate, air, groundwater, surface water, soil, landscape and cultural heritage and other material assets. Furthermore, interactions between the various protected goods as well as examined alternatives and measures for the exclusion, reduction and replacement of significant environmental impacts of the project are considered. The EIA report is thus an important component of the permit application for the planned expansion or modification of the existing permit.

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