Projects subject to Article 4(2) - Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment - page 395

Annex II:
Projects 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 include in
Annex I);
(h) Installations for hydroelectric energy production;
(i) Installations for the harnessing of wind power for energy production (wind farms).