Problems relating to Trade and Investment on Chile

22. Environmental pollution and waste disposal
Issue	Issue details	Requests	Reference

(1) Nebulous Procedures and Basis for Environmental Approvals

- In the business sector in which a member firm is concerned with there are cases where mining project on which Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA) approval once obtained gets rejected, or the Environmental approval on power generation project is finally rejected. All these denials of approval must have originated from the nebulous environmental approval procedures and approval standards.

- It is requested that GOJ induces GOC for clarification of the power between administration and judicature, and of the procedures for the citizens' participation in Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA) and Declaration of Environmental Impact (DIA).

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