Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 583 of 2017).

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.