10.—(1) This paragraph applies if—
(a)an appropriate authority is aware that the grant of a relevant application or regulator-initiated variation is likely to have significant negative effects on the environment of another member State, or
(b)another member State requests information about a relevant application or about a proposal for a regulator-initiated variation.
(2) As soon as is reasonably practicable the appropriate authority must—
(a)send the particulars of the relevant application or regulator-initiated variation to that member State to serve as the basis for bilateral consultations of the type referred to in the relevant Article,
(b)inform that member State of the relevant information, and
(c)notify the operator and the regulator that it has complied with paragraphs (b) and (c).
(3) If a regulator receives notification under sub-paragraph (2)(c), it must not determine the application or make the regulator-initiated variation until the appropriate authority has—
(a)notified it that the bilateral consultations have been completed, and
(b)sent it any representations made by the member State.
(4) In this paragraph—
“member State” includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway but only to the extent that there is a relevant application or regulator-initiated variation which relates to the carrying on at an installation of an activity listed in Annex I to the Industrial Emissions Directive;
“relevant application” means an application for the grant or variation of an environmental permit in relation to an installation described in sub-paragraph (5) or a Category A mining waste facility;
“relevant Article” means—
in the case of an application in relation to an installation described in sub-paragraph (5), Article 26 of the Industrial Emissions Directive;
in the case of an application in relation to a Category A mining waste facility, Article 16 of the Mining Waste Directive;
“relevant information” means—
where the relevant application or regulator-initiated variation relates to an installation described in sub-paragraph (5), a matter in paragraph 1 of Annex IV to the Industrial Emissions Directive;
where it relates to a Category A mining waste facility, the information required under Article 16 of the Mining Waste Directive.
(5) The description in this sub-paragraph is an installation where an activity listed in Annex 1 to the Industrial Emissions Directive is carried on.