{"id":410,"name":"Remediation of contaminated sites and areas","sector":{"id":5,"name":"Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation"},"description":"

The activity includes:

  1. decontamination or remediation of soils and groundwater in the polluted area, either in situ or ex situ, in particular using physical, chemical or biological methods;
  2. decontamination or remediation of contaminated industrial plants or sites;
  3. decontamination or remediation of surface water and its shores following accidental pollution, such as through collection of pollutants or through physical, chemical or biological methods;
  4. cleaning up oil spills and other types of pollutants on or in:
    1. surface water including rivers, lakes, coastal waters or transitional waters;
    2. groundwater as defined in Directive 2000/60/EC;
    3. marine water as defined in Directive 2008/56/EC;
    4. sediments (for all surface water types);
    5. aquatic ecosystems;
    6. buildings;
    7. soil;
    8. terrestrial ecosystems ;
  5. material abatement of hazardous substances, mixtures or products, such as asbestos or lead-based paint;
  6. other specialised pollution-control activities;
  7. clean-up after disasters from natural hazards, such as flooding, or earthquake;
  8. remediation of disused mining sites or legacies not associated with extraction revenues;
  9. containment operations, hydraulic barriers, active and passive barriers intended to limit or prevent migration of pollutants.

The activity also includes all activities that are required to prepare, plan, monitor and follow-up the decontamination or remediation activity itself, such as:

  1. preparatory investigations, including data collection and surveying activities (in particular geological or hydrological), technical feasibility and environmental impact studies required to define the remediation project;
  2. monitoring and control of the remediation measures, including:
    1. sampling of soil, water, sediment, biota or other materials;
    2. laboratory analysis of samples to identify the nature and concentration of pollutants;
    3. installation, operation and maintenance of monitoring facilities and equipment such as observation wells in and outside the perimeter of the remediation site;
  3. demolition of contaminated buildings or other structures, dismantling large-scale machinery and equipment (i.e., decommissioning) and removal of surface sealing and concreting;
  4. earth moving or dredging, including excavation, landfilling, levelling, construction or reinforcement of perimeter walls or fences, primary access and internal roads and any other activities necessary to operate the decontamination;
  5. implementation of other environmental protection and pollution prevention and control measures to comply with the conditions imposed in the environmental permit for the remediation project, including measures for safeguarding safety of operations on-site and health of workers (such as for fire control, flood protection, hazardous waste management), protection of workers, site access control, management of invasive species before or during decontamination or remediation, reinforcement operations carried out prior to or during decontamination.

This economic activity does not include:

  1. pest control in agriculture;
  2. purification of water for water supply purposes;
  3. decontamination or remediation of nuclear plants and sites;
  4. treatment and disposal of hazardous or non-hazardous waste unrelated to the site contamination problem;
  5. morphological remediation;
  6. remediation of legally non-conforming landfills and abandoned or illegal waste dumps unrelated to the site under remediation (See Section 2.3. of this Annex);
  7. emergency services (see Section 14.1. of Annex II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139);
  8. outdoor sweeping and watering of streets.

The economic activities in this category could be associated with several NACE codes, in particular 39, 33.20, 43.11, 43.12, 71.12, 71.20, 74.90, 81.30 in accordance with the statistical classification of economic activities established by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006.

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