《环境影响评价公众参与暂行办法》实施成效的调查.doc

PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT4 Practice of public participation in EIA in China: A case study on effectiveness of IPPE 【Abstract】 In order to promote and regulate the practice of public participation in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China enacted the Interim Procedures of Public Participation in EIA (IPPE) at February 14, 2006. In recent years, the implement of IPPE has played certain active roles, while how about its effectiveness is still not clear. To answer this question, a few EIA reports or Environmental Impacts Statements (EISs) were sampled from tens of different EIA consulting agencies, in which the practice and outcomes of public participation were investigated and reviewed according to the requirements of IPPE. Four aspects of the present practice，such as the participants，implementation phase, participating channels , feedback and suggestions, and the design of questionnaires survey were analyzed and summarized, then a few countermeasures were put forward to improve the effectiveness of public participation in EIA process based on a comparison to public participation systems of EIA abroad. 【Key Words】EIA; Public Participation; Interim Procedure; Effectiveness 1．Introduction After more than 20 years development, public participation in environmental impact assessment (EIA) in China has got pretty good achievements, such as improvement of regulation step by step, broadly promotion of consciousness of public participation, and its active role in harmonization of economic, society and environment. The requirements to carry out public participation in EIA in China can be dated back to Circular on Strengthening EIA Management of Construction Projects Financed by International Financial Organizations on June 21, 1993. Since then, several regulations relevant to public participation in EIA, including EIA Law of PRC, have been promulgated. Among them, Interim Procedures of Public Participation in EIA (IPPE) enac