12.—(1) If, after having complied with regulation 11(2), the Scottish Ministers reach the opinion that they require additional environmental information in order to decide whether to grant, or refuse to grant, consent for a relevant project, they shall notify the applicant of the information (and the number of copies) required and the applicant shall provide the Scottish Ministers with the additional environmental information required.
(2) The Scottish Ministers shall send a copy of any additional environmental information to the consultation bodies to whom a copy of the application was sent under regulation 11(2)(a) and such other consultation bodies as they think fit and shall make arrangements for the sending of a copy of that information to another EEA State which has indicated that it wishes to make representations in accordance with regulation 13(1) and shall make arrangements for them to be informed that they may make representations within 28 days.
(3) Where additional environmental information is received the Scottish Ministers shall publish in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the relevant land a notice–
(a)referring to the application to which the additional environmental information relates and the date on which that application was made;
(b)stating that the additional environmental information has been provided;
(c)specifying the address at which copies of the additional environmental information may be inspected free of charge and where (or from where) anyone who wishes to obtain copies of the additional environmental information may do so (or arrange to do so) within 28 days beginning with the publication of the notice (for which copies a reasonable charge may be made) at all reasonable hours; and
(d)stating that any person wishing to make any representations in relation to the additional environmental information shall make them in writing to the Scottish Ministers at the address specified under paragraph (c), or to an e-mail address nominated by them, within 28 days from the publication of the notice.