4.4 The Environment Protection Act, 2076 and Rules, 2077 — Basic

Features, Standards, Principles The Act 2076's regime (the 2053 Act's successor — the modernisation): The environmental assessment machinery: the IEE-and-EIA (the screening schedules; the approval's process; the public hearing duty); the environmental audit (the operating projects' compliance check); the strategic environmental assessment's faces (the plans-and- policies' tier); The pollution-control standards: the emission-and-effluent tolerances; the pollution- charge-and-compensation faces (the polluter-pays instruments — the 2053's upgrade); the environmentally-sensitive-areas' protections; The climate-change chapter (the Act's historic addition — the mitigation-adaptation duties; the carbon trading's statutory authorisation — the Paris-era face; the Padam Bahadur Shrestha case's legislative answer); The environmental protection areas-and-buffers (the designations-and-plans); The incentives' faces (the recognition-and-support for the conservation's actors); The inspection-and-enforcement machinery (the environmental inspectors; the improvement orders; the offences-and-penalties); The Rules 2077's procedures: the assessment's formats; the approval's timelines; the audit's reports; the charge-and-compensation's mechanics. The Act's principles (the recap- link): the prevention (the assessment-first); the polluter-pays (the charges); the precaution (the sensitive-areas); the participation (the hearings) — Unit 2's principles domesticated.