Federal Act issuing a Federal Act on the ban of geological storing of carbon dioxide and amending other Acts.
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Type of law
Legislation
Abstract
The present Act is made under the European Directive on the geological storage of CO2 of 5 June 2009. Article 1 establishes that «exploration »’ means the assessment of potential storage complexes for the purposes of geologically storing CO2 by means of activities intruding into the subsurface such as drilling to obtain geological information about strata in the potential storage complex and, as appropriate, carrying out injection tests in order to characterise the storage site ; and ‘geological storage of CO2’ means injection accompanied by storage of CO2 streams in underground geological formations. In particular, the Act establishes that on the Austrian federal territory the exploration and geological storage of carbon dioxide is prohibited. However, this does not apply to projects undertaken for research, development or testing of new products and processes. The text consists of 8 articles.
Article 5 of the Act introduces some amendments to the Raw Minerals Act (BGBl. I No. 38/1999).
Article 5 of the Act introduces some amendments to the Raw Minerals Act (BGBl. I No. 38/1999).
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Date of text
Repealed
No
Serial Imprint
Bundesgesetzblatt für die Republik Österreich, Part I, No. 144, 28 December 2011, 5 pp.
Source language
English
Legislation Amendment
No
Original title
Bundesgesetz, mit dem ein Bundesgesetz über das Verbot der geologischen Speicherung von Kohlenstoffdioxid erlassen wird und das Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfungsgesetz 2000, das Bundes-Umwelthaftungsgesetz, die Gewerbeordnung 1994 sowie das Mineralrohstoffgesetz geändert warden.