Appendices

• Author: Directorate-General for Environment (European Commission)
• Pages: 153-182

Guidance on Wind Energy Developments and EU Nature Legislation 153

APPENDIX A – CASE STUDIES

Case study

Member

State

Onshore/of

fshore Good practice for

Onshore

Offshore

Spatial planning

Sensitivity

mapping

Repowering

Decommissioning

Stakeholder

cooperation

Risk-based

approach

Precautionary

approach

Significance

Impact

assessment

Cumulative

assessment

Mitigation

measures

Data

Baseline

monitoring

Monitoring during

construction

Post-construction

monitoring

Birds

Bats

Marine mammals

Habitats

Case study 3-1 Guidance

on assessing the spatial

scope of cumulative impact

assessment related to bird

populations in Flanders

(Belgium)

BE

XXX

Case study 3-2 Dealing with

cumulative impact

assessment for offshore

wind in The Netherlands

NL

XXXXX

Case study 3-3 Applying the

precautionary principle in

windenergy spatial

planning - Capercaillie in

the Black Forest (Germany)

(LIFE project:

LIFE98_NAT_D_005087)

DE

XXXXXX

Case study 3-4 The

‘Rochdale Envelope’:

covering uncertainty in

project design trends–

Application to the Orsted

offshore wind farm ‘Hornsea

3’

UK

XXX

Case study 3-5 Multi-

stakeholder cooperation in

Germany

DE

XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Case study 3-6 Multi-

stakeholder cooperation in

France

FR

XXXXXXXXXXXX

154Guidance on Wind Energy Developments and EU Nature Legislation

Case study

Member

State

Onshore/of

fshore Good practice for

Onshore

Offshore

Spatial planning

Sensitivity

mapping

Repowering

Decommissioning

Stakeholder

cooperation

Risk-based

approach

Precautionary

approach

Significance

Impact

assessment

Cumulative

assessment

Mitigation

measures

Data

Baseline

monitoring

Monitoring during

construction

Post-construction

monitoring

Birds

Bats

Marine mammals

Habitats

Case study 4-1 Wind farm

sensitivity map for birds and

bats in Flanders (Belgium)

BE

XXXXXXXX

Case study 4-2 Soaring bird

sensitivity map for wind

energy development in

Thrace (Greece)

EL

XXXXXXXX

Case study 4-3 SeaMaST

(Seabird Mapping and

Sensitivity Tool): a tool for

assessing wind farm effects

in English territorial waters

UK

XXXXX

Case study 4-4: The Edulis

project, an example of

combined wind energy

generation and aquaculture

in the North Sea (Belgium)

BE

XXX

Case study 4-5: Flat oyster

restoration on offshore wind

farms (Netherlands)

NL

XXXX

Case Study 5-1 Effects on

steppic grasslan ds by

construction of wind

turbines in Dobrogea

(South-eastern Romania)

RO

XXXX

Case Study 5-2: RENEBAT

II and RENEBAT III /

ProBat

DE

XXXX

Case Study 5-3: Use of

ultrasonic acoustic devices

(UADs) as a bat deterrent

technique

Internatio

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