THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL TEXT
Council Directive
97/11/EC of 3 March 1997 amending Directive 85/337/EEC
on the assessment of the effects of certain public
and private projects on the environment (the 'EIA
Directive')
Annex I
Project subject to Article
4(1)
1. Crude-oil refineries (excluding
undertakings manufacturing only lubricants from
crude oil) and installations for the gasification
and liquefaction of 500 tonnes or more of coal or
bituminous shale per day.
2. Thermal power stations and other combustion
installations with a heat output of 300 megawatts
or more, and nuclear power stations and other nuclear
reactors including the dismantling or decommissioning
of such power stations or reactors (*) (except research
installations for the production and conversion
of fissionable and fertile materials, whose maximum
power does not exceed 1 kilowatt continuous thermal
load).
3. (a) Installations for the reprocessing of irradiated
nuclear fuel.
(b) Installations designed:
- for the production or enrichment of nuclear
fuel,
- for the processing of irradiated nuclear fuel
or high-level radioactive waste,
- for the final disposal of irradiated nuclear
fuel,
- solely for the final disposal of radioactive
waste,
- solely for the storage (planned for more than
10 years) of irradiated nuclear fuels or radioactive
waste in a different site than the production
site.
4. - Integrated works for the initial smelting
of cast-iron and steel;
- Installations for the production of non-ferrous
crude metals from ore, concentrates or secondary
raw materials by metallurgical, chemical or electrolytic
processes.
5. Installations for the extraction of asbestos
and for the processing and transformation of asbestos
and products containing asbestos: for asbestos-cement
products, with an annual production of more than
20 000 tonnes of finished products, for friction
material, with an annual production of more than
50 tonnes of finished products, and for other uses
of asbestos, utilization of more than 200 tonnes
per year.
6. Integrated chemical installations, i.e. those
installations for the manufacture on an industrial
scale of substances using chemical conversion processes,
in which several units are juxtaposed and are functionally
linked to one another and which are:
(i) for the production of basic organic chemicals;
(ii) for the production of basic inorganic chemicals;
(iii) for the production of phosphorous-, nitrogen-
or potassium-based fertilizers (simple or compound
fertilizers);
(iv) for the production of basic plant health products
and of biocides;
(v) for the production of basic pharmaceutical
products using a chemical or biological process;
(vi) for the production of explosives.
7. (a) Construction of lines for long-distance
railway traffic and of airports (1) with a basic
runway length of 2 100 m or more;
(b) Construction of motorways and express roads
(2);
(c) Construction of a new road of four or more
lanes, or realignment and/or widening of an existing
road of two lanes or less so as to provide four
or more lanes, where such new road, or realigned
and/or widened section of road would be 10 km or
more in a continuous length.
8. (a) Inland waterways and ports for inland-waterway
traffic which permit the passage of vessels of over
1 350 tonnes;
(b) Trading ports, piers for loading and unloading
connected to land and outside ports (excluding ferry
piers) which can take vessels of over 1 350 tonnes.
9. Waste disposal installations for the incineration,
chemical treatment as defined in Annex IIA to Directive
75/442/EEC (3) under heading D9, or landfill of
hazardous waste (i.e. waste to which Directive 91/689/EEC
(4) applies).
10. Waste disposal installations for the incineration
or chemical treatment as defined in Annex IIA to
Directive 75/442/EEC under heading D9 of non-hazardous
waste with a capacity exceeding 100 tonnes per day.
11. Groundwater abstraction or artificial groundwater
recharge schemes where the annual volume of water
abstracted or recharged is equivalent to or exceeds
10 million cubic metres.
12. (a) Works for the transfer of water resources
between river basins where this transfer aims at
preventing possible shortages of water and where
the amount of water transferred exceeds 100 million
cubic metres/year;
(b) In all other cases, works for the transfer
of water resources between river basins where the
multi-annual average flow of the basin of abstraction
exceeds 2 000 million cubic metres/year and where
the amount of water transferred exceeds 5 % of this
flow.
In both cases transfers of piped drinking water
are excluded.
13. Waste water treatment plants with a capacity
exceeding 150 000 population equivalent as defined
in Article 2 point (6) of Directive 91/271/EEC (5).
14. Extraction of petroleum and natural gas for
commercial purposes where the amount extracted exceeds
500 tonnes/day in the case of petroleum and 500
000 m3/day in the case of gas.
15. Dams and other installations designed for the
holding back or permanent storage of water, where
a new or additional amount of water held back or
stored exceeds 10 million cubic metres.
16. Pipelines for the transport of gas, oil or
chemicals with a diameter of more than 800 mm and
a length of more than 40 km.
17. Installations for the intensive rearing of
poultry or pigs with more than:
(a) 85 000 places for broilers, 60 000 places for
hens;
(b) 3 000 places for production pigs (over 30 kg);
or
(c) 900 places for sows.
18. Industrial plants for the
(a) production of pulp from timber or similar fibrous
materials;
(b) production of paper and board with a production
capacity exceeding 200 tonnes per day.
19. Quarries and open-cast mining where the surface
of the site exceeds 25 hectares, or peat extraction,
where the surface of the site exceeds 150 hectares.
20. Construction of overhead electrical power lines
with a voltage of 220 kV or more and a length of
more than 15 km.
21. Installations for storage of petroleum, petrochemical,
or chemical products with a capacity of 200 000
tonnes or more.