APA asked ANA for more information to "validate" Montijo

«As José Luís Moreira da Silva, a partner at SRS Legal, explained, "the law states that the ALA [Environmental Impact Assessment] entity has 60 (working) days to decide on the request for an extension, and may formulate requests for clarification that suspend the deadline", which ended up happening.

For this reason, the SRS expert points out that "the proponent [ANA] will be safe, because either it gets a decision or the EIS is extended automatically". However, he warns that it could happen that the APA reject the request for an extension, which would lead to the "extinction of the procedure and the need for the project to be subject to a new evaluation procedure". "But before that, the applicant could still could challenge the rejection in court, citing some illegality, and could also have the extension granted by the court," he added.»