The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 2017

Additional information E+W

12.—(1) If, after complying with regulation 11(4), the Welsh Ministers decide that a statement included with an application for consent, which purports to be an environmental statement, should contain additional information in order to be an environmental statement, the Welsh Ministers must notify the applicant of the additional information required and the applicant must provide the Welsh Ministers with that information within 28 days of being so notified (“additional environmental information”).

(2) The Welsh Ministers must—

(a) send a copy of the additional environmental information to such of the consultation bodies as they consider appropriate, and

(b) inform the consultation bodies that they may make representations within 28 days of the date they receive the additional information.

(3) The Welsh Ministers must publish in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the relevant land and on the Welsh Government website, a notice—

(a) referring to the application to which the additional environmental information relates and the date on which the application was made;

(b) stating that the additional environmental information has been received;

(c) specifying an address at which copies of the additional environmental information can be inspected free of charge and where copies of the application may be taken (for which a reasonable charge may be made) at all reasonable hours for 28 days from the date on which the notice is published; and

(d) stating that representations in relation to the additional environmental information may be made in writing to the Welsh Ministers at the address specified under sub-paragraph (c) for a period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the notice was published.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 12 in force at 16.5.2017, see reg. 1(3)