The Environment Protection Administration (EPA) has been annually undertaking the Evaluation of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Technical Consulting Organizations since 1997. The annual evaluation results are announced on the EPA’s website for the developers to choose appropriate technical consulting firms to work with. Through this project, the evaluation procedure was conducted in accordance with the measure of the year 2013. Of the 92 assessed firms, 8 were graded A, 11 were graded pre-A, 10 were graded B, 11 were graded C and 52 were ungraded. During the operation period of the evaluation procedure in 2014, the evaluation results of 420 EIA reports which belong to 92 technical consulting firms have been gathered and calculated by November 31, 2014. By consulting the scholars, experts and environmental officers, the opinions on the evaluation system were collected as a reference base to set up the evaluation measure of the year 2014. In addition, the certification system for EIA evaluators was drawn up and the preliminary feasibility was assessed in order to improve EIA evaluators’ professional competence. By holding review and communication conferences, the central authorities and the competent authorities were gathered to review the achievements of EIA affairs, improve the ability of the authorities to conduct EIA affairs and make the EIA system more mature.

Environmental Impact Assessment, Evaluation of Technical Consulting Organizations, Certification of EIA Evaluators