The Environmental Impact Assessment (Fish Farming in Marine Waters) Regulations 1999

Further information and evidence relating to environmental statements

10.—(1) The relevant authority, when dealing with an application in relation to which an environmental statement has been provided which is referred to by the applicant as an environmental statement for the purposes of these Regulations, may in writing require the applicant to provide such further information as may be specified to enable the application to be determined, or concerning any matter which is required to be dealt with in the environmental statement; and where in the opinion of the relevant authority–

(a) the applicant could (having regard in particular to current knowledge and methods of assessment) provide further information about any matter mentioned in Schedule 2; and

(b) that further information is reasonably required to give proper consideration to the likely environmental effects of the proposed development,

they shall notify the applicant in writing and the applicant shall provide that further information.

(2) The relevant authority may in writing require to be produced to them such evidence, in respect of any environmental statement which it falls to them to take into consideration, as they may reasonably call for to verify any information it contains.