European Union (Environmental Impact Assessment of Material Alterations of Approved Road Developments Consequent on Ministerial Directions in Respect of Discoveries of National Monuments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 114 of 2013).

The Regulations amend section 14B of the National Monuments Act 1930 so as to ensure that full effect is given in Irish law to Directive 2011/92/EU on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment. Section 14B, which was inserted by section 5 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act 2004, concerns situations where the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has issued directions to a road authority in respect of a national monument discovered during the carrying out of an approved road development. It provides for the carrying out of environmental impact assessment of proposed material alterations of approved road schemes consequent on the issuing of such Ministerial directions.