This Ministerial Decree establishes common approach to organization and performance of possible environmental impact assessment (EIA). The purpose of EIA shall be prevention or mitigation of negative environmental impact of the projected activities. Basic principles of EIA shall be: (a) assumption of potential ecological hazard to environment of the projected activity; (b) obligatoriness of fulfillment of the national EIA procedure; (c) preventiveness; (d) objectivity; (e) alternativeness (inclu