Philippine project owners, developers and LGUs

Where is the project?

Check whether your project needs an Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) or a Certificate of Non-Coverage, with the DENR checklist. Free.

  • Free to read
  • No sign-up until the draft
  • Hands off to the right door
PHILIPPINES

ePlan fills in

  • Location
  • Hazard zones
  • Protected areas
  • Land cover

How it works

ECC or CNC requirements checklist, from one answer

  1. Enter the location and what you plan to build or run.
  2. ePlan checks hazard and protected-area maps and lists what the DENR asks for.
  3. Read the checklist free. Also preparing a U.S. federal project? Start a NEPA environmental assessment.

What you get

One document, drafted from your answers

The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the NEPA environmental assessment door.

The first draft

ECC or CNC requirements checklist (free)

  1. Project and location
  2. ECC or Certificate of Non-Coverage
  3. Study type: IEE checklist, IEE or EIS
  4. Zoning or locational clearance
  5. Land title or tax declaration
  6. Maps: vicinity, location, topographic

Modeled on: CENRO checklist for ECC endorsement and Certificate of Non-Coverage (City of Naga)

From public data

What ePlan fills in, and from where

PHP 160,000

was a government agency's 2024 budget to hire a consultant for ECC work, including the IEE checklist
Source: Department of Agriculture Bicol, SVP-55-2024

Ready for the paperwork?

Draft a NEPA environmental assessment and FONSI, or an EIS outline, that follows a reference document. Free to read; every unconfirmed fact is marked.

NEPA environmental assessment →

Questions

ECC Application Checklist: what people ask

Do I need an ECC or a CNC?

Projects covered by the Philippine EIS system need an Environmental Compliance Certificate. Projects outside it get a Certificate of Non-Coverage instead.

Source: www2.naga.gov.ph

What documents go with the application?

A typical checklist asks for a letter request, zoning or locational clearance, the IEE checklist, IEE or EIS, land title or tax declaration, captioned site photos, vicinity and topographic maps, a survey plan signed by a geodetic engineer, and an LGU endorsement.

Source: www2.naga.gov.ph

What does the law say?

Presidential Decree 1586 bars anyone from starting an environmentally critical project, or a project in an environmentally critical area, without first securing an ECC.

Source: lawphil.net

The rules this door follows