---
title: "Environmental Impact Assessment"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/licensing-and-regulatory-permits-en/environmental-impact-assessment-801-en"
field: "Licensing & Regulatory Permits"
description: "Assessment is mandatory under Annex I; scoping placement within 5 days. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-15"
updated: "2026-10-23"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Environmental Impact Assessment

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/licensing-and-regulatory-permits-en/environmental-impact-assessment-801-en

An environmental impact assessment is a mandatory procedure for projects with significant environmental impact: the Environmental Assessment Code determines which activities are subject to assessment, of what stages the process consists, and how society participates. This page is a procedural guide for the client before the Agency — from the scoping application to the preparation of the report and the public discussion of the project.

## Which Activities Are Subject to Assessment

Assessment covers the activity provided for by Annex I of the Code, as well as that activity of Annex II which, on the basis of a decision adopted under the screening procedure, becomes subject to assessment. Such an activity may be carried out only after the adoption of an environmental decision, and a licence or permit dependent on it enters into force only after that decision — a licence cannot establish conditions contrary to the environmental decision.

The full text is available on legal.ge after signing in: https://legal.ge/en/service/licensing-and-regulatory-permits-en/environmental-impact-assessment-801-en

### When is an assessment required?

Annex I — always; Annex II — by screening.

### What is scoping?

The stage of defining the report's boundaries.

### Deadlines?

Placement in 5 days, comments in 15 days.