ADVANTAGES

• Improvement of adopted procedures in the scope of implementation of mitigation and compensatory measures of negative impacts (as well as their respective monitoring), to promote a more efficient use of resources and to enhance cost-benefit relations;

• Potentiate management actions delivering positive impacts on biodiversity;

• Clarification of Environmental Impact Assessment procedures to apply;

• Identification of sensitive areas in the planning of new transmission power lines, as well as identification of susceptible bird species on the implementation stage of the project;

• Contribution for bird-related outages mitigation, as predicting the use of pylons by nesting birds (white storks in particular);

• Establishment of management standards on rights-of-way of transmission lines and gas ducts to mitigate negative impacts and maximize positive impacts on biodiversity;

• Pursuance of environmental and social responsibility policies by the company;

• Promotion and training of REN staff and collaborators and benchmarking.

FOR CIBIO-INBIO