The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) on April 21, 2023, issued a notification to amend notification no. S.O.1533 (E), dated September 14, 2006, related to making provisions for Split and Part Transfer of Environment Clearance.
The following has been amended:
• In Para 11 which provides for transferring the prior Environmental Clearance (EC) from one legal person to another legal person during the validity period, after sub-paragraph (1), the following sub-paragraph has been inserted, namely: -
“(1A) A Prior-Environmental Clearance granted for a specific project, except mining projects may be split amongst two or more legal persons, entitled to undertake the project and transferred during the validity to another legal person on an application made by the transferor in the format specified on PARIVESH portal to the concerned Regulatory Authority along with requisite documents. The concerned Regulatory Authority shall split and transfer the Prior-Environmental Clearance, on the recommendation of the concerned Expert Appraisal Committee to the other legal persons for the respective projects.”
[Notification No. S.O. 1832 (E)]
