35As regards the second condition, Article 2(1) of Directive 85/337 shows that the essential objective of the directive is to ensure that projects likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue, inter alia, of their nature, size or location are made subject to an assessment of their effects on the environment before consent is given (see Linster, paragraph 52, and Boxus and Others, paragraph 41).
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