Environmental impact assessment

The Environmental Impact Assessment of projects (EIA) is an instrument enabling the preservation of natural resources and the defence of the environment by introducing the environmental variable into decision-making on projects which are predicted to have a significant impact on the environment.

In this regard, the legislation on strategic environmental assessment (SEA) on a national level is represented by Law 21/2013, of 9 December, for environmental assessment. This Law, for the first time, unifies the strategic environmental assessment of plans and programmes and the evaluation of projects’ environmental impact in a single regulation. Thereby establishing a similar scheme for both procedures and unifying its terminology.

Aena carries out an environmental assessment of its projects, and therefore provides greater reliability and trust in the decisions taken; a choice is permitted from different viable alternatives, in order to choose the one which, while safeguarding public interest, takes into account all the effects arising from the projected activity, from an overall, holistic viewpoint, ensuring adequate channels of information and public participation.

Finally, it should be noted that in order to ensure compliance with all the conditions set out in each Environmental Impact Statement for building projects, Aena carries out formal accreditation, with the environmental authority, of compliance with the administrative resolutions for which the society's construction projects are subjected to environmental impact assessment, in accordance with current legislation.

The resolutions obtained in this area may be found in the airports listed below.

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A Coruña

Environmental impact statement

Resolution of 17 September 2010 which formulates the environmental impact statement project "Extension of the runway of A Coruña airport"

PDF (2.78 Mb)

Environmental resolution (Annex II)

Resolution of 25 July 2006 by which the decision is adopted to not submit to environmental impact assessment the project "South apron and car park and roadways of A Coruña airport"

PDF (45.5 Kb)

Resolution of 24 May 2005 on the environmental impact assessment of the project "Facilities to meet category II/III criteria at A Coruña airport"

PDF (126 Kb)

Resolution of 20 March 2002 on the environmental impact assessment of the project "Extension of the aircraft apron" of A Coruña airport

PDF (37.4 Kb)

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Albacete

Algeciras

Alicante-Elche

Almería

Asturias

Bilbao

Burgos

César Manrique-Lanzarote

Ceuta

Córdoba

El Hierro

Federico García Lorca Granada-Jaén

Fuerteventura

Girona-Costa Brava

Gran Canaria

Huesca-Pirineos

Ibiza

Jerez

Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat

La Palma

León

Logroño-Agoncillo

Madrid-Cuatro Vientos

Madrid-Torrejón

Málaga-Costa del Sol

Melilla

Menorca

Murcia-San Javier

Palma de Mallorca

Pamplona

Reus

Sabadell

San Sebastián

Santiago-Rosalía de Castro

Seve Ballesteros-Santander

Sevilla

Tenerife Norte-Ciudad de La Laguna

Tenerife Sur

Valencia

Valladolid

Vigo

Vitoria

Zaragoza

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