Prohibition on granting consent without consideration of environmental information U.K.

3.—(1) This regulation applies to—

(a) every application for an order granting development consent for EIA development received by the Commission; and

(b) every subsequent application for EIA development received by a relevant authority

on or after 1st March 2010.

(2) Where this regulation applies, by virtue of paragraph (1)(a), the decision-maker must not make an order granting development consent unless it has first taken the environmental information into consideration, and it must state in its decision that it has done so.

(3) Where this regulation applies, by virtue of paragraph (1)(b) a relevant authority must not grant subsequent consent unless either—

(a) it has first taken the environmental information into consideration; or

(b) it has given a subsequent screening opinion to the effect that an updated environmental statement is not required to enable it to determine the application; and

and in either case it must state in its decision that it has done so.