Petroleum (Submerged Lands) (Management of Environment) Regulations 1999.

The object of these Regulations is to ensure that any petroleum activity in an adjacent area is carried out in a way that is consistent with the principles of ecologically sustainable development, in accordance with an environment plan that has appropriate environmental performance objectives and standards as well as measurement criteria for determining whether the objectives and standards are met. An operator, of a petroleum activity i.e. the person recorded by the Designated Authority under regulation 35 as the operator of a petroleum activity (defined in regulation 4), or if there is no such person, the person responsible to the petroleum instrument holder for the overall management of operations for the activity shall adopt an environment plan for the activity. Operations must comply with the environment plan submitted by the operator and accepted by the Designated Authority under provisions of Part 2. The operator of an activity must ensure that the concentration of petroleum in any produced formation water discharged into the sea as a result of operations for the activity shall not be greater than prescribed in regulation 29. (40 regulations divided into 4 Parts)