Positive
Project advancing - milestone achieved
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Major milestone or critical setback
By 24 October 2022, the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Gdańsk had issued a positive Environmental Decision (Decyzja o środowiskowych uwarunkowaniach) for the BC-Wind offshore wind farm itself. The decision, obtained after comprehensive environmental studies starting in 2019, successfully completed the EIA process for the project area in the Baltic Sea about 23 km north of Choczewo and Krokowa. The DŚU sets binding environmental conditions for construction and operation, covering impacts on seabirds, bats, marine mammals, seabed features and water quality. Ocean Winds highlighted this as an important milestone bringing it significantly closer to delivering its first offshore wind farm in the Polish Baltic Sea and enabling subsequent permitting steps such as building permits.