The Environmental Protection Law specifies necessary principles, rules and measures for managing, monitoring, restoring and protecting the environment in order to protect public, natural resources and biodiversity, and to ensure the sustainable socio-economic development of the nation. Article 2 defines "environment", whereas article 3 defines "environment protection". Basic principles of environment protection are set out in article 5. Chapter II concerns prevention of environmental degradation and the protection, exploitation and use of natural resources. The Science, Technology and Environment Agency shall issue general regulations on procedures and methods for environmental impact assessment but each sector that is responsible for the development projects and activities shall issue its own regulations on procedures and methods for environmental impact assessment, based on such general regulation of EIA (art. 8).