The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Regulation 6 (application for an opinion whether a project is a relevant project)

7.  In regulation 6, for paragraphs (2) and (3) substitute—

“(2) An application under paragraph (1) shall include or be accompanied by—

(a) a map or plan sufficient to identify the land that is the subject of the proposed project and the extent of the proposed project;

(b) information on the characteristics of the project and its likely significant effects on the environment specified in Schedule 2A; and

(c) such further information or representations as the proposer may wish to provide or make including a description of any features of the project or measures envisaged to avoid or prevent what might otherwise have been significant adverse effects on the environment.

(2A) The selection criteria set out in Schedule 3 must be taken into account, where relevant, when compiling the information required by sub-paragraph (2)(b).

(2B) The proposer must take into account, where relevant, the available results of other relevant assessments of the effects on the environment that have been carried out pursuant to Union legislation other than legislation implementing the requirements of the Directive.

(3) The Department shall, if it considers that it has not been provided with sufficient information to enable it to give an opinion under paragraph (1), notify the proposer in writing of the matters on which it requires further information and the proposer shall supply that further information to the Department within such period as the Department may reasonably require.”