New environmental impact assessment rules for public and private projects in Portugal

Manuel Gouveia Pereira, managing associate at the Real Estate & Environment practice, writes an article for the Iberian Lawyer about the new environmental impact assessment rules for public and private projects in Portugal.
According to the lawyer "... the Government mainly focused on simplifying procedures, shortening decision terms, changing some applicable thresholds and ensuring that a certain project will not be paralysed or seriously delayed whenever several different legal regimes apply and authorisations from various public authorities have to be given."