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Corporate history

> February 1994

Lower Austrian diet passes legal act to found EVN Abfallverwertung NÖ

> July 1994

EVN Abfallverwertung NÖ established, under the name AVN Abfallverwertung NÖ, as an equally-owned venture of the State of Lower Austria and EVN

> July 1994-May 1995

Feasibility study

> June 1995-April 1997

Search for a suitable site and decision-making process

> June 1997

Poll in Zwentendorf: 74% in favour

> August 1997 - Sept. 2000

Environmental impact analysis

> Spring 1998

Start of technical planning

> 1999

EVN Abfallverwertung NÖ becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of EVN

> From February 2000

Tendering of plant engineering components

> 5 September 2000

Decision made at the first-line level: Government of the State of Lower Austria

> 19. June 2001

Decision made by the second-line level: Environmental Senate at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management

> July 2001

Vote by the Lower Austrian diet

> July 2001

Start of construction

> July 2001-March 2003

Construction of the plant

> Autumn 2003

Completion and trial run

> 1 January 2004

Start of operation of lines 1 and 2

> January 2005

Decision to add a third line

> May 2006

Project filed for an environmental impact analysis with the Government of the State of Lower Austria

> April 2007

Licence issued by the Government of the State of Lower Austria

> June 2007

Construction of line 3 started

> June 2007 – July 2009

Construction of the plant

> 16 June 2009

AVN renamed EVN Abfallverwertung NÖ

> From August 2009

Startup and trial run