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• Canada is also known for its progressive environmental policies. Its federal EIA system
has good procedures for mediation and public participation.
• Australia's EIA system, like Canada's, is split between the federal and state
governments. The state of Western Australia provides a particularly interesting
example of a good state system with many innovative features.

The chapter concludes with a discussion of the role of international institutions in
developing and spreading good EIA practice for the projects and programmes they fund
and support.

10.2 EIA status worldwide

Table 10.1 and Figure 2.2 show, to the best of the authors' knowledge, the status of EIA
regulations worldwide at the end of 2003. Box 10.1 gives an initial list of sources of
information about EIA worldwide. More than 100 countries have some form of EIA
regulation.

Table 10.1 Existing EIA systems worldwide

Country Guideline (G) or regulation (R) Date of implementation

Europe
Austria

R 1993

Belgium R 1985-92

Denmark R 1989

Finland R 1994

France R 1976

Germany R 1990

Iceland R

Ireland R 1989

Italy R 1986-96

Luxembourg R 1994

Netherlands R 1987

Norway R 1990

Portugal R 1987

Spain R 1986

Sweden R

Switzerland R 1985

United Kingdom R 1988