Bill 102: Modernization Of The Environmental Authorization Scheme

The Minister of Sustainable Development, the Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change (the "MSDEFCC") introduced An Act to amend the Environment Quality Act to modernize the environmental authorization scheme and to amend other legislative provisions, in particular to reform the governance of the Green Fund (" Bill 102") in the National Assembly, in the form of a bill, on June 7, 2016. Anticipated since the Minister's February 2015 announcement that he would undertake a modernization of the environmental authorization scheme, and the tabling of the Green Paper in June 2015, Bill 102 proposes, inter alia, a new ministerial authorization scheme that will replace the current certificate of authorization and attestation schemes, as well as the permit scheme applicable to hazardous materials management.