Resource Manual to Support Application of the Protocol on SEA
Draft Final
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 II
Project subject to Article
4(2)
1. Agriculture, silviculture and aquaculture
(a) Projects for the restructuring of rural land
holdings;
(b) Projects for the use of uncultivated land or
semi-natural areas for intensive agricultural purposes;
(c) Water management projects for agriculture,
including irrigation and land drainage projects;
(d) Initial afforestation and deforestation for
the purposes of conversion to another type of land
use;
(e) Intensive livestock installations (projects
not included in Annex I);
(f) Intensive fish farming;
(g) Reclamation of land from the sea.
2. Extractive industry
(a) Quarries, open-cast mining and peat extraction
(projects not included in Annex
I);
(b) Underground mining;
(c) Extraction of minerals by marine or fluvial
dredging;
(d) Deep drillings, in particular:
- geothermal drilling,
- drilling for the storage of nuclear waste material,
- drilling for water supplies,
- with the exception of drillings for investigating
the stability of the soil;
(e) Surface industrial installations for the extraction
of coal, petroleum, natural gas and ores, as well
as bituminous shale.
3. Energy industry
(a) Industrial installations for the production
of electricity, steam and hot water (projects not
included in Annex I);
(b) Industrial installations for carrying gas,
steam and hot water; transmission of electrical
energy by overhead cables (projects not included
in Annex I);
(c) Surface storage of natural gas;
(d) Underground storage of combustible gases;
(e) Surface storage of fossil fuels;
(f) Industrial briquetting of coal and lignite;
(g) Installations for the processing and storage
of radioactive waste (unless included in Annex
I);
(h) Installations for hydroelectric energy production;
(i) Installations for the harnessing of wind power
for energy production (wind farms).
4. Production and processing of metals
(a) Installations for the production of pig iron
or steel (primary or secondary fusion) including
continuous casting;
(b) Installations for the processing of ferrous
metals:
(i) hot-rolling mills;
(ii) smitheries with hammers;
(iii) application of protective fused metal coats;
(c) Ferrous metal foundries;
(d) Installations for the smelting, including the
alloyage, of non-ferrous metals, excluding precious
metals, including recovered products (refining,
foundry casting, etc.);
(e) Installations for surface treatment of metals
and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical
process;
(f) Manufacture and assembly of motor vehicles
and manufacture of motor-vehicle engines;
(g) Shipyards;
(h) Installations for the construction and repair
of aircraft;
(i) Manufacture of railway equipment;
(j) Swaging by explosives;
(k) Installations for the roasting and sintering
of metallic ores.
5. Mineral industry
(a) Coke ovens (dry coal distillation);
(b) Installations for the manufacture of cement;
(c) Installations for the production of asbestos
and the manufacture of asbestos-products (projects
not included in Annex I);
(d) Installations for the manufacture of glass
including glass fibre;
(e) Installations for smelting mineral substances
including the production of mineral fibres;
(f) Manufacture of ceramic products by burning,
in particular roofing tiles, bricks, refractory
bricks, tiles, stoneware or porcelain.
6. Chemical industry (Projects not included in
Annex I)
(a) Treatment of intermediate products and production
of chemicals;
(b) Production of pesticides and pharmaceutical
products, paint and varnishes, elastomers and peroxides;
(c) Storage facilities for petroleum, petrochemical
and chemical products.
7. Food industry
(a) Manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and
fats;
(b) Packing and canning of animal and vegetable
products;
(c) Manufacture of dairy products;
(d) Brewing and malting;
(e) Confectionery and syrup manufacture;
(f) Installations for the slaughter of animals;
(g) Industrial starch manufacturing installations;
(h) Fish-meal and fish-oil factories;
(i) Sugar factories.
8. Textile, leather, wood and paper industries
(a) Industrial plants for the production of paper
and board (projects not included in Annex
I);
(b) Plants for the pretreatment (operations such
as washing, bleaching, mercerization) or dyeing
of fibres or textiles;
(c) Plants for the tanning of hides and skins;
(d) Cellulose-processing and production installations.
9. Rubber industry
Manufacture and treatment of elastomer-based products.
10. Infrastructure projects
(a) Industrial estate development projects;
(b) Urban development projects, including the construction
of shopping centres and car parks;
(c) Construction of railways and intermodal transshipment
facilities, and of intermodal terminals (projects
not included in Annex I);
(d) Construction of airfields (projects not included
in Annex I);
(e) Construction of roads, harbours and port installations,
including fishing harbours (projects not included
in Annex I);
(f) Inland-waterway construction not included in
Annex I, canalization and
flood-relief works;
(g) Dams and other installations designed to hold
water or store it on a long-term basis (projects
not included in Annex I);
(h) Tramways, elevated and underground railways,
suspended lines or similar lines of a particular
type, used exclusively or mainly for passenger transport;
(i) Oil and gas pipeline installations (projects
not included in Annex I);
(j) Installations of long-distance aqueducts;
(k) Coastal work to combat erosion and maritime
works capable of altering the coast through the
construction, for example, of dykes, moles, jetties
and other sea defence works, excluding the maintenance
and reconstruction of such works;
(l) Groundwater abstraction and artificial groundwater
recharge schemes not included in Annex
I;
(m) Works for the transfer of water resources between
river basins not included in Annex
I.
11. Other projects
(a) Permanent racing and test tracks for motorized
vehicles;
(b) Installations for the disposal of waste (projects
not included in Annex I);
(c) Waste-water treatment plants (projects not
included in Annex I);
(d) Sludge-deposition sites;
(e) Storage of scrap iron, including scrap vehicles;
(f) Test benches for engines, turbines or reactors;
(g) Installations for the manufacture of artificial
mineral fibres;
(h) Installations for the recovery or destruction
of explosive substances;
(i) Knackers' yards.
12. Tourism and leisure
(a) Ski-runs, ski-lifts and cable-cars and associated
developments;
(b) Marinas;
(c) Holiday villages and hotel complexes outside
urban areas and associated developments;
(d) Permanent camp sites and caravan sites;
(e) Theme parks.
13. - Any change or extension of projects listed
in Annex I or Annex II,
already authorized, executed or in the process of
being executed, which may have significant adverse
effects on the environment;
- Projects in Annex I,
undertaken exclusively or mainly for the development
and testing of new methods or products and not used
for more than two years.