The Environmental Impact Assessments in Morocco: Strengths and Weaknesses.

Morocco, with the enactment of the law on impact studies, has set itself the priority task to ensure the preservation of the environment and water resources. But the adoption of this law is also part of wide and varied national legal and regulatory field, grouping a multitude of sectoral laws relating to the environment. The first part of the paper has examined the contributions and limits of the legal framework by reviewing the national legal system and drawing the necessary conclusions regarding the interference arising between Moroccan Act on Environmental Impact Assessment and other laws or regulatory practices. The second part of the paper has reviewed regulatory and institutional framework in order to draw conclusions about their contributions and limits in the field of EIA. Finally, we concluded by proposing a strategy for capacity building and efficient implementation of the Act on Environmental Impact Assessment.