| Montreal, 12/02/1997 – The full text of the proposed Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment Agreement being developed by Canada, Mexico and the United States is available in the CEC website.
The ojectives of the proposed Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment Agreement would be to provide decisionmakers with timely information on the transboundary environmental consequences of proposed projects to ensure that decisions on such projects take into account such consequences and to provide a mechanism for potentially affected people and governments to participate in the process leading to a decision on the project.
The CEC Council, the highest body of the CEC, has decided that the parties (Canada, Mexico and the United States) would complete a legally-binding agreement by April 15, 1998. The Council also agreed that the work done by the group of experts be distributed publicly this fall. |
