The Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

10.  Where an application or proposal to serve a variation notice is forwarded to another Member State pursuant to paragraph 9 the Department shall notify the operator of the installation concerned and the chief inspector and–

(a) the chief inspector shall not determine the application (where the application has not been referred to the Department under paragraph 6) or serve the variation notice until the Department has notified him in writing that the bilateral consultations required by paragraph 9 have been completed and has forwarded to him any representations duly made on the application or proposed variation by persons in the other Member State which have been forwarded to the Department; and,

(b) in the case of an application to be determined by the chief inspector, the period within which to determine the application set out in paragraph 7(1)(a) shall begin on the day on which the chief inspector receives the Department’s notification that the bilateral consultations have been completed.