The Environmental Impact Evaluation (EIE) is a process during which the serious impacts of a specific project or development on the environment are detected. This process is not an individual and isolated decision-making process; on the contrary it is one that evolves through the decision-making process and complements it. It is the analysis and evaluation of the permanent or temporary possible impacts of fresh projects and developments on the environment in a way to comprehend their social outcomes and alternative solutions to them.

The objective of the EIE Report is to protect the environmental assets from financial policies without obstructing the economic and social developments and to identify beforehand all the detrimental impacts that a planned activity could give way to and make sure that the necessary measurements are adopted.

The basic mission of the EIE Report is to demonstrate the environmental outcomes possible to be sourced from the projects explicitly to the decision-makers responsible for the projects and developments in order to ensure that they can produce sounder  decisions in a more inclusive fashion and taking into account the multiple factors to affect the concerning decision.

The preparation of the EIE Report is a democratic and transparent process which brings together all the concerning parties and enables them to put forth their preoccupations and suggestions. The concerned parties contribute to the improvement of the project in an optimal way with the use of technical know-how and opinions they set forth during the process.

The problems that might come up during the implementation of the project can be solved or alleviated while the design of the project is still underway through consulting the public/other parties and collecting as much extensive data as possible regarding the project planned to be materialized, by virtue of the transparent nature of a well-functioning EIE process. Hence, many of the problems (predictable at times) are endeavored to be solved before the virtual implementation takes off and therefore, the costly waste of time is avoided.

Revising of the various alternatives proposed for the project in the frame of the EIE project can produce some options that are capable of reducing the costs for the project owner, on the other hand, while multiplying the environmental benefits. It builds confidence among the concerned parties, project owner and public institutions and organizations on account of the public participation and the EIE process contributes to the overall democratic process of that country through the participant profile.