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27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (85/337/EEC) (repealed)

[F17.

(a)

Construction of lines for long-distance railway traffic and of airports (1) with a basic runway length of 2 100 m or more;

(b)

Construction of motorways and express roads (2) ;

(c)

Construction of a new road of four or more lanes, or realignment and/or widening of an existing road of two lanes or less so as to provide four or more lanes, where such new road, or realigned and/or widened section of road would be 10 km or more in a continuous length.]

Textual Amendments

(1)

[F1For the purposes of this Directive, ‘ airport ’ means airports which comply with the definition in the 1944 Chicago Convention setting up the International Civil Aviation Organization (Annex 14).

(2)

For the purposes of the Directive, ‘ express road ’ means a road which complies with the definition in the European Agreement on Main International Traffic Arteries of 15 November 1975.]

Textual Amendments