Investors often ask for assessment of and, subsequently, for permits for parts of the projects only (namely with regard to traffic infrastructure projects or energy projects).With this approach, known as “salami-slicing”, the less environmentally questionable parts of projects are authorized and built first, making continued development of the project a virtual fait accompli, even if, for instance in traffic infrastructure projects, the latter sections traverse environmentally valuable territory, or in the case of large scale energy projects, large amounts of waste are produced with its management submitted to a separate EIA. This is contrary to Article of the EIA Directive which requires that “projects” likely to.
