Several regulations governing the implementation of the
environmental authorization scheme have been enacted and were
published on September 2, 2020, in the Gazette officielle du
Québec, Part 2, including the
Regulation respecting the regulatory scheme applying to
activities on the basis of their environmental impact
(Regulation).
Context
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)1 was passed on
March 23, 2017, and the majority of its provisions came into force
in March 2018.
The main purpose of Bill 102 was to amend the authorization
scheme under the Environment Quality Act (EQA) by
implementing a simplified version tailored to the environmental
risk so that, depending on the risk level (i.e., high, moderate,
low, negligible), a project (or components of it) could be subject
to a government
