THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL TEXT
UNECE Protocol
on Strategic Environmental Assessment to the Convention
on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary
Context (Kiev, 2003)
26. Authentic texts (etc.) |
Contents |
Annex II - Any other projects referred to
in article 4, paragraph 2 |
Annex I
List of projects as referred to in article
4, paragraph 2
1. Crude oil refineries (excluding undertakings
manufacturing only lubricants from crude oil) and
installations for the gasification and liquefaction
of 500 metric tons 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 (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. Installations solely designed for the production
or enrichment of nuclear fuels, for the reprocessing
of irradiated nuclear fuels or for the storage,
disposal and processing of radioactive waste.
4. Major installations for the initial smelting
of cast-iron and steel and for the production of
non-ferrous metals.
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 metric tons of finished product; for friction
material, with an annual production of more than
50 metric tons of finished product; and for other
asbestos utilization of more than 200 metric tons
per year.
6. Integrated chemical installations.
7. Construction of motorways, express roads*/
and lines for long-distance railway traffic and
of airports**/
with a basic runway length of 2,100 metres or more.
8. Large-diameter oil and gas pipelines.
9. Trading ports and also inland waterways and
ports for inland-waterway traffic which permit the
passage of vessels of over 1,350 metric tons.
10. Waste-disposal installations for the incineration,
chemical treatment or landfill of toxic and dangerous
wastes.
11. Large dams and reservoirs.
12. Groundwater abstraction activities in cases
where the annual volume of water to be abstracted
amounts to 10 million cubic metres or more.
13. Pulp and paper manufacturing of 200 air-dried
metric tons or more per day.
14. Major mining, on-site extraction and processing
of metal ores or coal.
15. Offshore hydrocarbon production.
16. Major storage facilities for petroleum, petrochemical
and chemical products.
17. Deforestation of large areas.
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*/
For the purposes of this Protocol:
- "Motorway" means a road specially designed and
built for motor traffic, which does not serve properties
bordering on it, and which:
(a) Is provided, except at special points or temporarily,
with separate carriageways for the two directions
of traffic, separated from each other by a dividing
strip not intended for traffic or, exceptionally,
by other means;
(b) Does not cross at level with any road, railway
or tramway track, or footpath; and
(c) Is specially sign posted as a motorway.
- "Express road" means a road reserved for motor
traffic accessible only from interchanges or controlled
junctions and on which, in particular, stopping
and parking are prohibited on the running carriageway(s).
**/
For the purposes of this Protocol, "airport" means
an airport which complies with the definition in
the 1944 Chicago Convention setting up the International
Civil Aviation Organization (annex 14).