76Article 2(1) of Directive 85/337 thus states that the environmental impact assessment must take place ‘before the giving of consent’. That entails that the examination of a project’s direct and indirect effects on the factors referred to in Article 3 of that directive and on the interaction between those factors be fully carried out before consent is given.
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