Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Notification of determination that a proposed project is likely to have significant effects on the environment N.I.

30.—(1) This regulation applies to any case where, under regulation 29(4), the Department determines that any proposed project is likely to have significant effects on the environment.

(2) In any case to which this regulation applies, the Department shall by general and local advertisement—

(a) describe briefly the nature, size and location of the proposed project in question;

(b) state that the proposed project is likely to have significant effects on the environment and that the Department intends to prepare an environmental statement in respect of it;

(c) state that any person may obtain information from, or make representations in writing to, the Department in relation to the likely environmental effects of the proposed project at an address specified in the notice within [F1 30 days] of the date of the publication of the notice in the Belfast Gazette;

(d) indicate the nature of the information in question and the times where and means by which it will be made available;

(e) state the nature of the possible decisions that may be made in the case or, if there is one, the draft decision; and

(f) indicate whether the proposed project is likely to have significant effects on the environment in [F2 an] EEA State.

(3) Where the Department publishes an advertisement in accordance with paragraph (2) it shall, on or before the date of the publication of the notice in the Belfast Gazette, send a copy of that notice to each of the consultation bodies.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 30(2)(c) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/86), regs. 1, 16

F2 Word in reg. 30(2)(f) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/279), regs. 1(1), 3(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 30 in operation at 4.1.2007, see reg. 1