New Legal Updates: Annual Visa For Environmental Authorisation And Integrated Environmental Authorisation

1. New provisions regarding environmental studies

On June 11, 2020, Order of the Minister of Environment, Water and Forest no. 1.150 from May 27, 2020 was published in the Official Gazette no. 495. (the “Order no. 1.150/2020“).

Order no. 1.150/2020 established a new procedure for the annual visa of the Environmental Authorisation and Integrated Environmental Authorisation.

The procedure provided by Order no. 1.150/2020 is effective starting with July 11, 2020. The procedure is applied also for the visas issued before July 11, 2020.

For the application of the annual visa requested before July 11, 2020, the public authority for environment protection will close the application and will inform the holder of the authorisation of the obligation to apply for the visa in the next year. In other words, it seems that as long as an application for visa is pending at the date of the entry into force of Order 1.150/2020, the authority will not analyse such an application