Amendment of the Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006
8.—(1) The Environmental Noise (Scotland) Regulations 2006(1) are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).
(2) In regulation 20 (co-operation with external competent authorities)—
(a)in paragraph (1)—
(i)omit “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (a),
(ii)omit sub-paragraph (b),
(b)for paragraph (2) substitute—
“(2) In this Part, “external competent authority” means a competent authority specified in relation to England, Northern Ireland or Wales in accordance with—
(a)the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006(2),
(b)the Environmental Noise Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006(3), or
(c)the Environmental Noise (Wales) Regulations 2006(4).”.
(3) In regulation 24(4)(b) (powers of the Scottish Ministers)—
(a)omit “or” at the end of head (i),
(b)omit head (ii).
(4) For paragraph 2(2) of schedule 1 (general requirements for strategic noise maps) substitute—
“(2) In applying sub-paragraph (1)(a)—
(a)any reference in Annex IV to the Directive to—
(i)Article 8 of the Directive is to be read as a reference to regulations 13, 15 and 17 of these Regulations,
(ii)Article 9 of the Directive is to be read as a reference to regulation 26 of these Regulations,
(b)in paragraph 4 of Annex IV to the Directive, the words “the provision of the data to be sent to the Commission in accordance with Article 10(2) and Annex VI” are to be disregarded, and
(c)paragraph 5 of Annex IV to the Directive is to be disregarded.”.