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The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Scotland) Regulations 1999

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Thresholds

2.—(1) For the purposes of regulation 3(3), the threshold for any project of a type specified in an entry in column 1 in the Table below is the area (if any) specified in the corresponding entry in Column 2 or 3 of the Table, whichever is appropriate to the land covered, or proposed to be covered, by that project.

(2) This paragraph applies subject to paragraph 3 of this Schedule.

TABLE

Column 1Column 2Column 3
Type of ProjectThreshold where any part of the land is in a sensitive areaThreshold where no part of the land is in a sensitive area
Afforestation

2 hectares, where the sensitive area is one referred to in paragraph 1(e) above.

No threshold in the case of other sensitive areas.

5 hectares.
Deforestation

0.5 hectare, where the sensitive area is one referred to in paragraph 1(e) above

No threshold in the case of other sensitive areas.

1 hectare.
Forest road worksNo threshold.1 hectare.
Forest quarry worksNo threshold.1 hectare.

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