CONTAINING REFORM: THE UK STANCE ON THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY ElA DIRECTIVE

Peter Wathern

Review of Policy Research, 1988, vol. 8, issue 1, 95-104

Abstract: After a decade's deliberation, the European Community EIA Directive bccomes operative on July 3, 1988. Member states spent 7 years refining the proposals and were given 3 years to devise implementation procedures. In this paper the attempt by the UK government to contain the impact of the Directive on domestic policy is reviewed. While the UK government was successful in eroding many provisions during formulation, it has been prevented from exempting many projects from mandatory EIA in its im‐ plementation procedures. The most significant reform is that many projects are subject to formal EIA for the first time.

Date: 1988
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