Data Centre & Environmental Impact Assessment procedures: MASE guidelines and Environmental Law Decree no. 153/2024
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By Decree No. 257 of 02/08/2024 of the general management office for the environmental procedures, Ministry of Environment and Energy Security (“MASE”) adopts the “Guidelines for Data Centre environmental assessment procedures”.
The Guidelines examine a list of design, environmental, health, socio-economic, ecological protection and biodiversity aspects, exogenous risks, abnormal or accidental risks, landscape and cultural heritage, the issue of cumulative impacts, mitigation and compensation measures, decommissioning and ecological restoration, and the environmental monitoring plan. For each aspect, the Guidelines clarify a set of elements that the applicant should include when preparing its EIA screening or EIA application.
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