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From Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information (OCEI)
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From Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Information (OCEI)
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Article 3(1) of the AIE Regulations provides that "environmental information" means any information in written, visual, aural, electronic or any other material form on -
(a) the state of the elements of the environment, such as air and atmosphere, water, soil, land, landscape and natural sites including wetlands, coastal and marine areas, biological diversity and its components, including genetically modified organisms and the interaction among these elements
(b) Factors, such as substances, energy, noise, radiation or waste, including radioactive waste, emissions, discharges and other releases into the environment, affecting or likely to affect the elements of the environment
(c) Measures (including administrative measures), such as policies, legislation, plans, programmes, environmental agreements, and activities affecting or likely to affect the elements and factors referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) as well as measures or activities designed to protect those elements
(d) Reports on the implementation of environmental legislation
(e) Cost-benefit and other economic analyses and assumptions used within the framework of the measures and activities referred to in paragraph (c)
(f) The state of human health and safety, including:
The presence of environmental information in a document does not make all of the information in the document environmental information.