The works at the cruise pier in the port of Piraeus were temporarily suspended

In a short period of time, the strategic environmental impact study of the PPA, which has been submitted since 2018 for port of Piraeusin order for the expansion projects of cruise pier (Expansion of the Passenger Port South Zone) that were temporarily suspended, based on the relevant recent decision of the Council of State that obliges the company “to have in its hands” the specific study.

According to information, the Ministry of Shipping It is then expected to immediately expedite the procedures for convening the Port Planning and Development Committee in order to re-approve the existing master plan.

According to sources from PPAthe company’s crews have already proceeded with the arrangement of the works area at the southern pier and the insurance of the machinery.

According to the same sources, since 2001 there is one European directive which says that when you make a spatial plan master plan for a port should have been preceded by a strategic study of environmental impact, ie all of this overall impact on the environment.

They pointed out that the ports have one specific institutional framework, which says that when an environmental impact study has preceded, there is no need to do a strategic environmental impact study, since you have done the impact assessment once and do not do it again. They added that in this logic the master plans of all ports began to be the first Strategic Environmental Impact Studies but the projects proceeded separately, since according to the philosophy of the national law the ports are productive, are wealth resources of the country and must yield quickly. for the benefit of the national economy.

The CoC ruled that the relevant law was contrary to the European directive.

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