Amendment to the Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 20035

The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 200311 are amended by inserting the following after regulation 9—

Civil sanctions9A

1

The Environment Agency may impose a variable monetary penalty, restoration notice, compliance notice or stop notice, or accept an enforcement undertaking, in relation to an offence under regulation 9(4) as if it were an offence under a provision specified in relation to that sanction in Schedule 5 to the Environmental Civil Sanctions (England) Order 2010.

2

The terms used in this regulation have the same meaning as in that Order.

3

The provisions of that Order in relation to those sanctions apply as if they were provisions of these Regulations.

4

This regulation applies only in England.