NOTICE TO MEMBERS Petition 0024/2012 by Daniele Spera and Roberto Giurastante (Italian), on behalf of the Legamjonici Committee and the Greenaction Transnational Association, on construction of a g...

European Parliament 2024-2029 Committee on Petitions 10.10.2024 NOTICE TO MEMBERS Subject: Petition 0024/2012 by Daniele Spera and Roberto Giurastante (Italian), on behalf of the Legamjonici Committee and the Greenaction Transnational Association, on construction of a gas pipeline in Apulia 1. Summary of petition On 1 March 2010, Taranto municipal authority approved the building of a 4 780 km methane pipeline, as part of the construction of a Hydrocracking plant. The project appears to have been split into sections to artificially reduce its overall environmental impact, which avoids entire segments being subject to compulsory environmental impact assessment. In the view of the petitioners, these works run counter to Directives 85/337/EEC, 96/82/EC, 2001/42/EC, with regard to environmental impact procedures, and Directives 75/442/EEC, 91/156/EEC, 91/689/EEC and 99/31/EC with regard to environmental compatibility 2. Admissibility Declared admissible on 25 April 2012. Information requested from Commission under Rule 202(6). 3. Commission reply, received on 30 August 2012 ‘Directive 2011/92/EU1 (the Environmental Impact Assessment or EIA Directive) The information submitted by the petitioner shows that two separate Directors Decrees (Determinazione del Dirigente) were issued by the Province of Taranto on 24.02.2009 and 1 OJ L 26, 28.1.2012, p.1. EN United in diversity EN 25.02.2009 respectively screening out gas pipelines of 0.58km and 4.870km from...