2.2 Procedural Principles

2.2.1 Prior Informed Consent (PIC): the affected parties' knowing agreement before the risk- imposing act — the transboundary movements' rule (the hazardous wastes' Basel regime; the GMOs' Cartagena); the indigenous communities' PIC (the traditional knowledge's use — the Nagoya faces); the PIC's anatomy (the information's adequacy, the consent's freedom, the prior- ness). 2.2.2 Public/Stakeholders Participation: the affected public's voice in the environmental decisions — the participation's ladder (the information access → the participation in the process → the justice's access — the Aarhus Convention's triad); the EIA's consultation duty (the affected communities' hearing); the women-indigenous-local communities' participation (the CBD's and the climate regime's language); the Nepali face (the EIA's public-hearing requirement; the LGOA 2074's local participation). 2.2.3 Environmental Assessment: the project's environmental study before the approval — the EIA/IEE machinery (the screening → the scoping → the assessment → the mitigation → the monitoring); the strategic environmental assessment (the policies-and-plans' tier — the upstream assessment); the assessment's legal nature (the Pulp Mills' customary due-diligence face — Unit 1.6). 2.2.4 Transboundary Notification and Consultation: the planned-measures' duty: the significant-transboundary-risk activities → the prior notification of the affected states + the consultation in good faith (the Lake Lanoux's progeny; the watercourses' convention's rules) — the procedural spine of the no-harm regime: the harm's prevention through the process. Exam Focus Long questions (the…