Environmental Impact Assessment (Fish Farming in Marine Waters) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Further information and evidence relating to environmental statements

10.—(1) The Department, when dealing with an application in relation to which an environmental statement has been provided which is referred to by the applicant as an environmental statement for the purpose of these Regulations, may in writing require the applicant to provide such further information as may be specified to enable the application to be determined, or concerning any matter which is required to be dealt with in the environmental statement; and where in the opinion of the Department—

(a) the applicant could (having regard in particular to current knowledge and methods of assessment) provide further information about any matter mentioned in Schedule 2; and

(b) that further information is reasonably required to give proper consideration to the likely environmental effects of the proposed development,

it shall notify the applicant in writing and the applicant shall provide that further information.

(2) The Department may in writing require to be produced to it such evidence, in respect of any environmental statement which falls to it to take into consideration, as it may reasonably call for to verify any information it contains.