Council Directive of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (85/337/EEC) (repealed) (c. 337)

[F1 ANNEX II U.K. PROJECTS SUBJECT TO ARTICLE 4 (2)

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Council Directive 97/11/EC of 3 March 1997 amending Directive 85/337/EEC on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment.

2. Extractive industry U.K.

(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.]