These Regulations amend the Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003 implement Directive 2014/52/EU (“Directive 2014/52”) of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2011/92/EU (“Directive 2011/92”) on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment in respect of water management projects for agriculture, including irrigation projects, in England and Wales. They: a) new regulations 3A and 3B (as inserted by regulation 5) make provision for a determination that the 2003 Regulations do not apply to specific projects; (b) add new regulation 3C which makes provision for the coordination of environmental assessments;(c) amend regulation 6 so as to make provision with respect to the preparation of an environmental statement; (d) add new regulation 7A which makes provision requiring the appropriate authority to consider an environmental statement and reach a conclusion about the likely significant effects on the environment of a relevant project; (e) amend regulation 8 relating to the appropriate authority’s determination of an application for, or for the variation of, an authorisation relating to a relevant project, for example setting out matters to be included in the appropriate authority’s consideration of that application; (f) add new Schedules 1 and 2 to reflect amendments made by Directive 2014/52 to Annexes III and IV of Directive 2011/92 respectively.
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