Flood Risk Management (Flood Protection Schemes, Potentially Vulnerable Areas and Local Plan Districts) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. No. 112 of 2017).

These Regulations amend the Flood Risk Management (Flood Protection Schemes, Potentially Vulnerable Areas and Local Plan Districts) (Scotland) Regulations 2010 so as to give effect to the implementation, in relation to flood protection schemes, of Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, as amended by Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council. These Regulations supplement the provisions in section 60 and schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 to ensure that, where any such proposed flood protection scheme contains a description of operations which constitute a project in Annex I or II of the Directive, the requirements of the Directive are met. In particular— — regulations 3, 5 and 6 (together with schedules 1 and 2 of these Regulations) replace the provisions in Part II of the 2010 Regulations and also schedules 1 and 2 (which all relate to environmental impact assessment), with new provisions relating to environmental impact assessment which are updated to take account of the amendments made to the Directive by Directive 2014/52/EU, — regulation 2 inserts definitions into Part I of the 2010 Regulations for certain words and expressions used in the new provisions inserted by regulation 3; and makes some other consequential revisions to the existing definitions, and — regulation 4 amends some of the provisions in Parts III and IV of the 2010 Regulations, in consequence of the changes made to those Regulations by regulation 2 and 3.