Part I General

Prohibition on the grant of planning permission without consideration of environmental information
4. (1) Planning permission shall not be granted for EIA development, where the application is received on or after the date these regulations come into operation, unless the Department or the Commission, as the case may require, has first taken into consideration environmental information.
(2) The Department or the Commission, as the case may require, shall when granting planning permission in respect of an application to which paragraph (1) applies, state in the notice to the applicant of its decision, that it has taken environmental information into consideration.