SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 19Minor and consequential amendments

PART 2Amendments of other legislation

Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3391)

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1

Regulation 2 (interpretation) is amended as follows.

2

In paragraph (1), at the appropriate places, insert—

“the data protection principles” means the principles set out in—

a

Article 5(1) of the GDPR,

b

section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018, and

c

section 85(1) of that Act;

“data subject” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act);

“the GDPR” and references to a provision of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the Data Protection Act 2018 have the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of that Act (see section 3(10), (11) and (14) of that Act);

“personal data” has the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(2) and (14) of that Act);

3

For paragraph (4) substitute—

4A

In these Regulations, references to the Data Protection Act 2018 have effect as if in Chapter 3 of Part 2 of that Act (other general processing)—

a

the references to an FOI public authority were references to a public authority as defined in these Regulations, and

b

the references to personal data held by such an authority were to be interpreted in accordance with regulation 3(2).