The Pipe-lines, Petroleum, Electricity Works and Oil Stocking (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Amendments to the Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999

3.—(1) The Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipe-lines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3, in paragraph (b) of the definition of “appropriate particulars”, for “EU legislation other than” substitute “retained EU law other than any law that implemented”.

(3) In regulation 3A(2)(a)(ii), after “habitats protected under” insert “any law of any part of the United Kingdom that implemented”.

(4) In regulation 3B(2), for “EU or national legislation” substitute “the law of any part of the United Kingdom”.

(5) In regulations 5A(5)(b) and 11(8E)(b), for “EU legislation other than the Directive, or under national legislation” substitute “the law of any part of the United Kingdom other than any law that implemented the Directive”.

(6) In regulation 6(3), for “EU legislation other than” substitute “retained EU law other than any law that implemented”.

(7) In regulations 6(5)(d), 12A(1) and 13(4)(b), for “another EEA State” substitute “an EEA State”.

(8) In the first place it occurs in regulations 11(7) and 12(2), in both places it occurs in regulation 12(1) and in the heading of regulation 12A, omit “other”.

(9) In regulation 12A(1), omit “, pursuant to Article 7(1) or 7(2) of the Directive,”.

(10) In regulation 12A(1)(b), omit “pursuant to Article 7(3)(b) of the Directive”.

(11) In regulation 13(4)—

(a) after sub-paragraph (a) insert “and”;

(b) omit sub-paragraph (c) and the “, and” immediately preceding it.

(12) In Schedule 1—

(a) in paragraph 2(c)(v), for the words after “national legislation” to the end substitute “or Natura 2000 as defined in regulation 3(1) of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017;”;

(b) in paragraph 2(c)(vi), for “EU legislation” substitute “retained EU law”.

(13) In Schedule 2, in paragraph 10—

(a) for “EU legislation such as Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances or Council Directive 2009/71/Euratom establishing a community framework for the nuclear safety of nuclear installations or relevant assessments carried out pursuant to national legislation” substitute “retained EU law or relevant assessments carried out pursuant to any other law of any part of the United Kingdom”;

(b) after “requirements of” insert “any law of any part of the United Kingdom that implemented”.

(1)

S.I. 1999/360, amended by S.I. 2007/933, 2015/1431, 2016/529, 2016/912 and 2017/582 and applied with modifications under S.I. 2010/1513.