Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 580 of 2017).

These Regulations make provision with respect to environmental impact assessments to be undertaken in relation to applications for consents for new offshore generating stations under section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 (applications are made to the Marine Management Organisation (the MMO )); variations of existing section 36 consents under section 36C of that Act (applications are made either to the Secretary of State or the MMO, depending on who granted the original consent); and consents for overhead electric lines under section 37 of that Act (applications are made to the Secretary of State). The Regulations set out what constitutes EIA development and set out the procedures for an EIA (including screening decisions and scoping opinions).