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Regulations on environment and health impact assessment to be issued
BANGKOK, Dec 24 (TNA) – Thailand's National Environment Committee has agreed to issue regulations, requiring industrial projects nationwide to conduct assessment on environment and health impacts and public hearing, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Thursday.
The environment panel, chaired by the prime minister, agreed with proposals by a four-party panel, chaired by former prime minister Anand Panyarachun, to solve the Map Ta Phut problems.
Under the regulations to be issued by the Natural Resources and Environmen Ministry, the industry sector will be required to conduct the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), the Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
and public hearing among local residents before an industrial project is launched, Mr Abhisit said.
The regulations will be submitted to the Cabinet next week and expected to be put in effect after an official announcement in the Royal Gazette.
The four-party panel will go ahead with drafting criteria to set up an independent body under the Constitution to regulate the industrial sector to comply with the regulations.
The prime minister said suspensions of about five or six industrial projects in the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate are expected to be lifted, assuring that the regulations to be issued will create confidence among investors.
Out of 76 industrial projects suspended by the Central Administrative Court, 12 projects were later allowed by the court to continue while 64 others remain suspended.
The Central Administrative Court issued an injunction in September ordering suspension of 76 industrial projects at Map Ta Phut in September for failing to meet environmental and health impact assessment
requirements under Article 67 of the 2007 Constitution.
The injunction followed complaints from local residents and environmental groups that state agencies failed to issue proper operating licenses for the industrial projects and that the projects failed to provide health
impact assessments required by the 2007 Constitution. (TNA)
The environment panel, chaired by the prime minister, agreed with proposals by a four-party panel, chaired by former prime minister Anand Panyarachun, to solve the Map Ta Phut problems.
Under the regulations to be issued by the Natural Resources and Environmen Ministry, the industry sector will be required to conduct the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), the Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
and public hearing among local residents before an industrial project is launched, Mr Abhisit said.
The regulations will be submitted to the Cabinet next week and expected to be put in effect after an official announcement in the Royal Gazette.
The four-party panel will go ahead with drafting criteria to set up an independent body under the Constitution to regulate the industrial sector to comply with the regulations.
The prime minister said suspensions of about five or six industrial projects in the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate are expected to be lifted, assuring that the regulations to be issued will create confidence among investors.
Out of 76 industrial projects suspended by the Central Administrative Court, 12 projects were later allowed by the court to continue while 64 others remain suspended.
The Central Administrative Court issued an injunction in September ordering suspension of 76 industrial projects at Map Ta Phut in September for failing to meet environmental and health impact assessment
requirements under Article 67 of the 2007 Constitution.
The injunction followed complaints from local residents and environmental groups that state agencies failed to issue proper operating licenses for the industrial projects and that the projects failed to provide health
impact assessments required by the 2007 Constitution. (TNA)
