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ARTICLE · 04 AUGUST 2012

Proposal For More Stringent Assessment Of Natural Values In Environmental Permits And Infra Construction

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Natural values and their protection were included in the Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen’s government programme as an area for improvement.

FinlandEnvironment
Casper Herler
Casper Herler
Hanna Lehtinen
Hanna Lehtinen

Introduction

Natural values and their protection were included in the Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen's government programme as an area for improvement. Hence, the possibility to include the protection of natural values in the Environmental Protection Act is now being investigated. In the current Finnish system pollution control issues are provided in the Environmental Protection Act, whereas natural values are protected by the Nature Conservation Act, zoning legislation and natural resources legislation. The current state of how natural values are mainly regulated by the Nature Conservation Act has been considered to be insufficient by the Ministry of the Environment.

The Ministry of the Environment has on 30 November 2011 appointed a working group to investigate the revision of the Environmental Protection Act, among others. The working group was divided into four project groups, of which the fourth group was assigned to investigate whether regulation regarding

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