Law & Regulation
Resolution No. 4 of 2005 of the Chairperson of the Supreme Council for the Environment and Natural Reserves Issuing the Executive Bylaw of the Environment Protection Law
The Executive Bylaw turns the Environment Protection Law into an operational permitting and compliance system, including environmental-assessment procedures, application materials, approval steps, pollutant controls, waste and hazardous-substance rules, monitoring requirements and technical annexes.
Legal Significance
What This Instrument Does
It specifies how regulated persons and projects obtain environmental approval and comply after approval. Its annexes provide forms, procedural requirements and environmental standards across air, water, marine, waste and industrial activities.
Why It Matters
The Bylaw is often the practical working instrument for advisers preparing approval strategies and compliance matrices. It determines what evidence, studies and controls may be required, while project-specific authority requirements and current technical limits must still be confirmed.
Key Provisions
- Project classification and assessment
How projects are screened and the level of environmental study or approval is determined.
- Application and study content
Information, plans, technical materials and environmental analysis supporting an application.
- Review and approval procedure
Authority review, conditions, requests for further information and approval outcomes.
- Construction-phase controls
Measures addressing dust, noise, waste, discharges and site impacts during works.
- Operating environmental controls
Ongoing compliance with emissions, discharge, handling and monitoring conditions.
- Air and industrial standards
Detailed limits and controls, including sector-sensitive industrial sources in annexes.
- Water, wastewater and marine discharge
Standards and consent mechanics for discharge and marine environmental protection.
- Hazardous materials and waste
Storage, movement, treatment, disposal and record requirements within environmental jurisdiction.
- Monitoring, sampling and reporting
Measurement methods, records, reports and authority access.
- Environmental emergency planning
Prevention and response measures for spills, releases and other incidents.
- Permit modification and project change
Need to reassess approvals when project design, capacity or operations change materially.
- Annexes, standards and forms
Legally operative technical content that should be linked and version-controlled, not rewritten as generic prose.
When You Would Use This
EIA scoping
Preparing an EIA scope and permit schedule.
Tender review
Reviewing tender environmental requirements.
Application responsibility allocation
Allocating application responsibilities.
EPC environmental plans
Drafting EPC environmental plans.
O&M monitoring
Specifying O&M monitoring.
Waste / hazardous-material audit
Auditing waste or hazardous-material processes.
Project modification assessment
Assessing a project modification.
Finance CP verification
Verifying finance CPs and environmental representations.
InfraLex Relevance
The Bylaw connects the high-level environmental statute to real project deliverables. InfraLex should identify the applicable procedural and technical module without converting every annex, form or numerical limit into a separate legislation record.
Legal Framework Position
- Environmental / PermittingImplementing Instrument
Primary / Parent Instrument
Instrument Overview
- Official Citation
- Resolution No. 4 of 2005
- Instrument Type
- Rules / Bylaws
- Source Language
- Arabic
- Enactment Date
- 18 June 2005
- Last Verified
- 4 September 2026