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The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

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Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 293

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, ENGLANDAND WALES

The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

Made

10th February 1999

Laid before Parliament

19th February 1999

Coming into force

14th March 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, being designated(1) Ministers for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures relating to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and section 71A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(3) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and having taken into account the selection criteria in Annex III to Council Directive 85/337/EEC(4) as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC(5) hereby make the following Regulations:—

(1)

S.I. 1988/785. See also the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2971).

(3)

1990 c. 8. Section 71A was inserted by section 15 of the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34).

(4)

O.J. No. L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40.

(5)

O.J. No. L 73, 14.3.1997, p. 5.

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