Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. No. 115 of 2017).

These Regulations implement 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 Council Directive 2014/52/EU, in relation to regulatory approvals required before certain projects may be taken forward in Scotland’s marine environment. The Regulations impose procedural requirements in relation to the consideration of applications for such regulatory approvals by the Scottish Ministers. All projects in schedule 1 require an environmental impact assessment (EIA). Projects in Schedule 2 require an EIA if they are likely to have significant effects on the environment ("EIA projects”). The Regulations, among other things: prohibit the grant of a regulatory approval for an EIA project or a multi-stage regulatory approval unless an environmental impact assessment has been carried out and the Scottish Ministers have first taken account of the environmental information (defined) which is before the; set out what the environmental assessment process comprises and the content of an EIA report; set out procedures for determining whether environmental impact assessment is required; set out procedures to be followed where the Scottish Ministers are considering an application for regulatory approval for an EIA project without an EIA report; provide with respect to consultation between EEA States where EIA projects are likely to have significant effects on the environment in another EEA State; define offences. Intensive fish farming may classify as Schedule 2 project.