Judgment_paragraph 3 · Dimos Kropias Attikis v Ypourgos Perivallontos, Energeias kai Klimatikis Allagis (C-473/14)

3Recitals 10 and 19 in the preamble to Directive 2001/42 state:(10) All plans and programmes which are prepared for a number of sectors and which set a framework for future development consent of projects listed in Annexes I and II to Council Directive 85/337/EEC of 27 June 1985 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment [(OJ 1985 L 175, p. 40), as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC of 3 March 1997 (OJ 1997 L 73, p. 5),] … are likely to have significant effects on the environment, and should as a rule be made subject to systematic environmental assessment. When they determine the use of small areas at local level …, they should be assessed only where Member States determine that they are likely to have significant effects on the environment.…(19) Where the obligation to carry out assessments of the effects on the environment arises simultaneously from this Directive and other Community legislation, such as Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds [(OJ 1979 L 103, p. 1), as codified by Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 (OJ 2010 L 20, p. 7)], [Council] Directive 92/43/EEC [of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (OJ 1992 L 206, p. 7)] …, in order to avoid duplication of the assessment, Member States may provide for coordinated or joint procedures fulfilling the requirements of the relevant Community legislation.’