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Amendment of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1999

4.  In column 2 of the Table in Schedule 2 to the Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1999(1), for the entry corresponding to the entry in column 1 which relates to water management projects for agriculture, substitute–

(i)The project is an irrigation project involving the abstraction or diversion of water for more than 48 hours in any calendar year and the total area of agricultural land to be irrigated in any agricultural unit or any part thereof exceeds 50 hectares;

(ii)in any other case, the area of the works exceeds one hectare;

and for the purposes of this entry, “agricultural land” and “agricultural unit” have the same meaning as in Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Order 1992..

(1)

S.S.I. 1999/1, there are no amending instruments relevant to these Regulations.