Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1999

Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

Schedule 1 - Projects for which EIA is Mandatory

The following types of development require environmental impact assessment in every case. For a complete list refer to the Schedule 1 of the EU Directive.

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 megawatts or more; and

3. Integrated chemical installations, that is to say, 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:

a. for the production of basic organic chemicals;

b. for the production of basic inorganic chemicals;

c. for the production of phosphorous-, nitrogen- or potassium-based fertilisers (simple or compound fertilisers);

d. for the production of basic plant health products and biocides;

e. for the production of basic pharmaceutical products using a chemical or biological process;

f. for the production of explosives.

4. Trading ports, piers for loading and unloading connected to land and outside ports (excluding ferry piers) which can take vessels of over 1,350 tonnes.

5. Waste disposal installations for the incineration, chemical treatment (as defined in Annex IIA to Council Directive 75/442/EEC 4 (see endnote 4) under heading D9), or landfill of hazardous waste (that is to say, waste to which Council Directive91/689/EEC 5 (see endnote 5) applies).

6. Waste disposal installations for the incineration or chemical treatment(as defined in Annex IIA to Council Directive 75/442/EEC under heading D9) of non-hazardous waste with a capacity exceeding 100 tonnes per day.

7. Groundwater abstraction or artificial groundwater recharge schemes where the annual volume of water abstracted or recharged is equivalent to or exceeds10 million cubic metres.

8. Waste water treatment plants with a capacity exceeding 150 000 population equivalent as defined in Article 2 point (6) of Council Directive 91/271/EEC 6 (see endnote 6).

9. Extraction of petroleum and natural gas for commercial purposes where the amount extracted exceeds 500 tonnes per day in the case of petroleum and 500 000cubic metres per day in the case of gas.

10. Pipelines for the transport of gas, oil or chemicals with a diameter of more than 800 millimetres and a length of more than 40 kilometres.

11. Installations for storage of petroleum, petrochemical or chemical products with a capacity of 200 000 tonnes or more.