The Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017

Co-ordination of assessments S

38.—(1) Where, in relation to an EIA project there is, in addition to the requirement for an environmental impact assessment to be carried out in accordance with these Regulations, also a requirement to carry out a habitats regulation appraisal, the Scottish Ministers must, where appropriate, ensure that the habitats regulation appraisal and the environmental impact assessment are co-ordinated.

(2) In this regulation, a “habitats regulation appraisal” means an assessment under one, or more, of the following regulations—

(a) regulation 48 of the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994;

(b) [F1 regulation 28 of the Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats and Species Regulations 2017];

(c) regulation 61 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2010 M1 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 38(2) substituted (30.11.2017) by The Conservation of Offshore Marine Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1013), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 21(2) (with regs. 3, 4(2))

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2010/490, regulation 61 is amended by S.I. 2012/1927.