Environmental Impact Assessment (Amendment) Regulations,

L.N. 438 of 2011

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Environmental Impact Assessment (Amendment) Regulations,

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 61 and

62 of the Environment and Development Planning Act, the Prime

Minister, after consultation with the Malta Environment and

Planning Authority, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Environmental

Impact Assessment (Amendment) Regulations, 2011, and they

shall be read and construed as one with the Environmental Impact

Assessment Regulations, 2007, hereinafter referred to as “the

principal regulations”.

These regulations transpose the provisions related to

Directive 85/337/EEC as amended on the assessment of the

effects of certain public and private projects on the environment

as outlined in Directive 2009/31/EC on the Geological Storage of

Carbon Dioxide.

Schedule IA of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a) for paragraph 2.6.1.1 thereof there shall be

substituted the following

“2.6.1.1. Pipelines with a diameter of more than

800 mm and a length of more than 40 km

— for the transport of gas, oil, chemicals,

and,

— for the transport of carbon dioxide (CO2)

streams for the purposes of geological storage,

including associated booster stations.”;

(b) for paragraph 2.6.2.1 thereof there shall be

subsituted the following

“2.6.2.1: Oil and gas pipeline installations and

pipelines for the transport of CO2 streams for the

purposes of geological storage (projects not included in

Category I of this Schedule).”;

(c) immediately after paragraph 7.6.1.3 thereof,

there shall be added the following new paragraphs

“7.6.1.4: Storage sites pursuant to the Geological

Storage of Carbon Dioxide Regulations, 2011.

6.1.5: Installations for the capture of CO2 streams

for the purposes of geological storage pursuant to the

Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide Regulations,

2011 from installations covered by this Schedule, or

where the total yearly capture of CO2 is 1,5 megatonnes

or more.”; and

(d) immediately after paragraph 7.6.2.6 there shall

be added the following new paragraph

“7.6.2.7: Installations for the capture of CO2

streams for the purposes of geological storage

pursuant to the Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide

Regulations, 2011 from installations not covered by

Category I of this Schedule;”.

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