Proclamation No. 299-2002 Environmental Impact Assessment
[Article] 18. Offences and
Penalties
1) Without prejudice to the
provisions of the Penal Code, any person who violates the provision of this
Proclamation or of any other relevant law or directive commits an offence and
shall be liable accordingly.
2) Any person who, without
obtaining authorization from the Authority or the relevant regional
environmental agency, or makes false presentations in an environmental impact
assessment study report commits an offence and shall be liable to a fine of not
less than fifty thousand birr and not more than one hundred thousand Birr.
3) Any person commits an
offence if he fails to keep records or to fulfill conditions of authorization
issued pursuant to this Proclamation and shall be liable to a fine of not less
than ten thousand Birr and not more than twenty thousand Birr.
4) When a juridical person
commits an offence, in addition to whatever penalty it may be meted with, the
manager who failed to exercise all due diligence shall be liable to a fine of
not less than five thousand Birr and not more than ten thousand Birr.
5) The court before which a
person is prosecuted for an offence under this Proclamation or regulations or
directives emanating from it, may, in addition to any penalty it may impose,
order the convicted person to restore or in any other way compensate for the
damage inflicted.
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