PART 4Amendment of retained direct EU legislation

Amendment of Article 38.

(1)

Article 3 is amended as follows.

(2)

For “the Annex”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “Annex 1”.

(3)

In paragraph 1—

(a)

in the first subparagraph—

(i)

for “Member States”, in the first place where it occurs, substitute “The competent authorities”;

(ii)

for the final sentence substitute—

“In such cases, the Secretary of State shall provide a justification for that opinion in any report provided pursuant to regulation 18(7) of the Marine Strategy Regulations 2010.”;

(b)

in the second subparagraph—

(i)

for “a Member State” substitute “the Secretary of State”;

(ii)

omit “other”.

(4)

In paragraph 2, for “each Member State” substitute “the Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities,”.

(5)

In paragraph 4—

(a)

omit “Union, ”;

(b)

for “Member States” substitute “the competent authorities”.