Environmental assessments and authorizations

The Environmental Impact Assessment - EIA is the procedure by which the competent authority ascertains - prior to authorization - the environmental compatibility of a project in relation to the environmental context in which it is located. Our team can support the proposer throughout the entire authorization process, helping him to orient himself in the various viable options in relation to the complexity of the project and the environment involved (e.g., the Verification of EIA Subjectivity - Screening, the preliminary phase consultation for the definition of the contents of the Environmental Impact Study - Scoping, or the Environmental Impact Assessment in all its phases, from the preliminary verification of constraints and critical issues, to the drafting of the documentation and any additions, to the dialogue with the competent authorities , setting up and drawing up the documents as required (e.g. preliminary environmental study, environmental impact study, environmental monitoring plan, etc.).

Introduced into the Community legal system in 1985 with Directive 85/337/EEC, which was followed by various directives which have progressively expanded and detailed the field of application subsequently (the latest being Directive 2014/52/EU) and governed by Legislative Decree 152/2006 as amended (Consolidated Environment Act, second part, Title III)

Our team has gained numerous experiences in the field of drafting the Landscape Report, which the proposer must present - where required - together with the project documentation and any other documents of technical environmental study. The landscape authorization is provided for by Legislative Decree 42/2004 as amended (Code of cultural heritage and landscape), also alongside the environmental authorization procedures, where the interventions in the project have potential effects on restricted cultural and landscape assets.

The numerous skills present in our team, and the decades of experience in the field of environmental and landscape authorization procedures, allow us to provide our customers with adequate support when evaluating projects in view of their acquisition and/or development, identifying and evaluating the potentially critical profiles in relation to the progress of the authorization procedures and the possible elements that could hinder their effective implementation.

It is the single enabling provision which replaces in a single title seven communications and authorizations on environmental matters, regulated by Presidential Decree n.59/2013. Ambiente Italia, thanks to a consolidated experience in the field of environmental regulations, can guarantee professional support in the drafting of all the documentation necessary for the AUA

The SEA (Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes) has the purpose of guaranteeing a high level of environmental protection and contributing to the integration of environmental considerations during the elaboration, adoption and approval of certain plans and programs ensuring that are coherent and contribute to the conditions for sustainable development.

Our team has been developing original and coherent approaches to the assessment of the sustainability of plans and programs since the end of the 80s with some pilot experiences in the field, and subsequently with various professional assignments for both public and private entities, as well as in various European projects.

Introduced at European level in 2001 with Directive 2001/42/EC, the environmental assessment of plans and programs is regulated in part two, title II of the Consolidated Law on the Environment.

In our team there are two technicians competent in the field of environmental acoustics (enrolled in the ENTECA list), who have environmental noise measurement instruments and updated forecasting software to carry out acoustic survey campaigns and very high precision acoustic impact assessment . Governed by the framework law on noise pollution n. 447 of 26 October 1995 as amended and supplemented by the related implementing provisions, is aimed at ascertaining compliance with the limit values ​​set by the law by the project activities.

Our team has followed numerous environmental authorization procedures relating to different plant types, helping to set up and develop the required technical documentation and the forms required by the various procedures at both national and regional level. Introduced into European legislation with Directive 1996/61/EC (IPPC, Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control), then superseded by Directive 2010/75/EU (IED, Industrial Emissions Directive), the Integrated Environmental Authorization is governed by Legislative Decree Legislative Decree 152/06 as amended (Consolidated Environment Text, Part Two, Title III Bis).