Case study on the consideration of EIA alternatives and the possibility of recurring to the use of “screening” decisions in Spain’s EIA

2013

Funded within the Life+ framework awarded to the Justice & Environment Organization (of which IIDMA is a member) in 2012, we conducted two case studies (Siroco oil prospecting and the combined-cycle plant in Fayón, Aragón) to analyze how the alternative processes of Spain’s EIA where being carried out. Additionally, a jurisprudential analysis was carried out to examine whether it was possible to recur directly to administrative decision on whether a project could be attached to the EIA’s Annex II (screening decision).