Resource Manual to Support Application of the Protocol on SEA
Draft Final
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)
Annex I - List of projects as referred to
in article 4, paragraph 2 |
Contents |
Annex III - Criteria for determining of the
likely significant environmental, including
health, effects referred to in article 5,
paragraph 1 |
Annex II
Any other projects referred to in article
4, paragraph 2
1. Projects for the restructuring of rural land
holdings.
2. Projects for the use of uncultivated land or
semi-natural areas for intensive agricultural purposes.
3. Water management projects for agriculture, including
irrigation and land drainage projects.
4. Intensive livestock installations (including
poultry).
5. Initial afforestation and deforestation for
the purposes of conversion to another type of land
use.
6. Intensive fish farming.
7. 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), as far as not included in annex
I.
8. Construction of overhead electrical power lines
with a voltage of 220 kilovolts or more and a length
of 15 kilometres or more and other projects for
the transmission of electrical energy by overhead
cables.
9. Industrial installations for the production
of electricity, steam and hot water.
10. Industrial installations for carrying gas,
steam and hot water.
11. Surface storage of fossil fuels and natural
gas.
12. Underground storage of combustible gases.
13. Industrial briquetting of coal and lignite.
14. Installations for hydroelectric energy production.
15. Installations for the harnessing of wind power
for energy production (wind farms).
16. Installations, as far as not included in annex
I, designed:
- For the production or enrichment of nuclear
fuel;
- For the processing of irradiated nuclear fuel;
- 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 in a different
site than the production site; or
- For the processing and storage of radioactive
waste.
17. Quarries, open cast mining and peat extraction,
as far as not included in annex
I.
18. Underground mining, as far as not included
in annex I.
19. Extraction of minerals by marine or fluvial
dredging.
20. 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.
21. Surface industrial installations for the extraction
of coal, petroleum, natural gas and ores, as well
as bituminous shale.
22. Integrated works for the initial smelting of
cast iron and steel, as far as not included in annex
I.
23. Installations for the production of pig iron
or steel (primary or secondary fusion) including
continuous casting.
24. Installations for the processing of ferrous
metals (hot-rolling mills, smitheries with hammers,
application of protective fused metal coats).
25. Ferrous metal foundries.
26. Installations for the production of non-ferrous
crude metals from ore, concentrates or secondary
raw materials by metallurgical, chemical or electrolytic
processes, as far as not included in annex
I.
27. Installations for the smelting, including the
alloyage, of non-ferrous metals excluding precious
metals, including recovered products (refining,
foundry casting, etc.), as far as not included in
annex I.
28. Installations for surface treatment of metals
and plastic materials using an electrolytic or chemical
process.
29. Manufacture and assembly of motor vehicles
and manufacture of motor-vehicle engines.
30. Shipyards.
31. Installations for the construction and repair
of aircraft.
32. Manufacture of railway equipment.
33. Swaging by explosives.
34. Installations for the roasting and sintering
of metallic ores.
35. Coke ovens (dry coal distillation).
36. Installations for the manufacture of cement.
37. Installations for the manufacture of glass
including glass fibre.
38. Installations for smelting mineral substances
including the production of mineral fibres.
39. Manufacture of ceramic products by burning,
in particular roofing tiles, bricks, refractory
bricks, tiles, stoneware or porcelain.
40. Installations for the production of chemicals
or treatment of intermediate products, as far as
not included in annex I.
41. Production of pesticides and pharmaceutical
products, paint and varnishes, elastomers and peroxides.
42. Installations for the storage of petroleum,
petrochemical, or chemical products, as far as not
included in annex I.
43. Manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and
fats.
44. Packing and canning of animal and vegetable
products.
45. Manufacture of dairy products.
46. Brewing and malting.
47. Confectionery and syrup manufacture.
48. Installations for the slaughter of animals.
49. Industrial starch manufacturing installations.
50. Fish-meal and fish-oil factories.
51. Sugar factories.
52. Industrial plants for the production of pulp,
paper and board, as far as not included in annex
I.
53. Plants for the pre treatment or dyeing of fibres
or textiles.
54. Plants for the tanning of hides and skins.
55. Cellulose-processing and production installations.
56. Manufacture and treatment of elastomer-based
products.
57. Installations for the manufacture of artificial
mineral fibres.
58. Installations for the recovery or destruction
of explosive substances.
59. Installations for the production of asbestos
and the manufacture of asbestos products, as far
as not included in annex I.
60. Knackers' yards.
61. Test benches for engines, turbines or reactors.
62. Permanent racing and test tracks for motorized
vehicles.
63. Pipelines for transport of gas or oil, as far
as not included in annex I.
64. Pipelines for transport of chemicals with a
diameter of more than 800 mm and a length of more
than 40 km.
65. Construction of railways and intermodal transhipment
facilities, and of intermodal terminals, as far
as not included in annex I.
66. Construction of tramways, elevated and underground
railways, suspended lines or similar lines of a
particular type used exclusively or mainly for passenger
transport.
67. Construction of roads, including realignment
and/or widening of any existing road, as far as
not included in annex I.
68. Construction of harbours and port installations,
including fishing harbours, as far as not included
in annex I.
69. Construction of inland waterways and ports
for inland-waterway traffic, as far as not included
in annex I.
70. Trading ports, piers for loading and unloading
connected to land and outside ports, as far as not
included in annex I.
71. Canalization and flood-relief works.
72. Construction of airports**/
and airfields, as far as not included in annex
I.
73. Waste-disposal installations (including landfill),
as far as not included in annex
I.
74. Installations for the incineration or chemical
treatment of non-hazardous waste.
75. Storage of scrap iron, including scrap vehicles.
76. Sludge deposition sites.
77. Groundwater abstraction or artificial groundwater
recharge, as far as not included in annex
I.
78. Works for the transfer of water resources between
river basins.
79. Waste-water treatment plants.
80. Dams and other installations designed for the
holding-back or for the long-term or permanent storage
of water, as far as not included in annex
I.
81. 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.
82. Installations of long-distance aqueducts.
83. Ski runs, ski lifts and cable cars and associated
developments.
84. Marinas.
85. Holiday villages and hotel complexes outside
urban areas and associated developments.
86. Permanent campsites and caravan sites.
87. Theme parks.
88. Industrial estate development projects.
89. Urban development projects, including the construction
of shopping centres and car parks.
90. Reclamation of land from the sea.
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*/
For the purposes of this Protocol, nuclear power
stations and other nuclear reactors cease to be
such an installation when all nuclear fuel and other
radioactively contaminated elements have been removed
permanently from the installation site.
**/
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).