Statutory Instruments
2003 No. 164
WATER RESOURCES, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003
Made
30th January 2003
Laid before Parliament
31st January 2003
Coming into force
1st April 2003
The Secretary of State, being a Minister designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) 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(2), in exercise of powers conferred on her by that subsection, and having taken into account the selection criteria specified in Annex III to Council Directive 85/337/EEC(3) (on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment) as inserted by Council Directive 97/11/EC amending Council Directive 85/337/EEC(4)), hereby makes the following Regulations:
1972 c. 68. The enabling powers of section 2(2) of this Act were extended by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51).
S.I. 1988/785.
OJ L175, 5.7.1985, p.40.
OJ L73, 14.3.1997, p.5.