Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2000 No. 84
FORESTRY
Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000
Made
14th March 2000
Coming into operation
1st May 2000
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being a department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, and having taken into account the selection criteria in Annex III to Council Directive 85/337/EEC(3) as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC(4) hereby make the following Regulations:
1972 c. 68. Section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3) and S.R. 1994/2795 (N.I. 15)
O.J. No. L175, 5.7.85, p. 40
O.J. No. L73, 14.3.97, p. 5