5.1. Improve the links between PERS and EIA
The introduction of SEA made possible systematic EA from the plan
level to the project development level. However, procedures between
the PERS and the EIA began to overlap. To avoid such problems, an
institutional revision is necessary to maintain the credibility of EA
while avoiding procedural overlapping. The following measures need
to be taken for this to occur:
– the overall period of implementing the EIA needs to be shortened
for those projects that have already gone through the PERS, and
– measures need to be taken to reduce reviews in the EIA that were
already implemented in the PERS.
Fig. 4 sets out these proposals in diagrammatic form.