Projects subject to Article 4(1) - Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment - page 392

Annex I:
Projects 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
meg a watts or more, and
Nuclear power stations and other nuclear reactors including the dismantling or
decommissioning of such power stations or reactors 1 (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) I n stallations 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;
1 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.
(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;