The purpose of this Statement is to communicate how, for the purposes of environmental impact assessment, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA)

• considers the object and principles of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (the Act)
• provide the aims of EIA
• uses environmental factors and objectives to guide EIA
• considers significance throughout the EIA process
• takes a holistic view of the environment and a proposal potential impact on the environment
• considers cumulative effects when assessing a proposal potential impact on the environment.
• provide detail on the mitigation hierarchy

In the current version (Version 5.0), the Statement has been updated to reflect the revised Greenhouse Gas Emissions factor objective.