In the countries where EIA is separated from development consent procedure, the Member States concerned and their citizens can participate in the EIA itself, but not always in the subsequent decision-making procedures. Furthermore, translation problems occur in many transboundary procedures. Due to the complexity of EIA-procedures public authorities lack resources to translate the full EIA-documentation, making public participation meaningless. Next to that, the rights of the public from the neighbouring Member State to participate in EIA and development consent procedures for projects with transboundary impacts should not be fully dependent on action or inaction of the authorities of the affected Member State according to Article of the.
