- Volume 16 (2018), Issue 2
- Vol. 16 (2018), No. 2
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- Pages 174 - 182
- pp. 174 - 182
Schwerpunkt: UmwRG und UVPG ∙ Die Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung nach Inkrafttreten des Modernisierungsgesetzes vom 20. Juli 2017
The German Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Act has been fundamentally modernized by act of 20 July 2017. This article gives an introduction into and an evaluation of the new rules. In the opinion of the author, the aim of simplification, harmonization and user-friendly structuring of the EIA-rules, in particular of those concerning the scope of the EIA, should, in principle, be welcomed, however it has been achieved only to a limited extent. The author argues that even after its reform the German EIA Act is still rather complicated and not very user-friendly.