The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2228

FORESTRY, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

Made

9th August 1999

Laid before Parliament

9th August 1999

Coming into force

6th September 1999

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Wales, being Ministers designated(1) 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, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2) 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(3) as amended by Council Directive 97/11/EC(4), hereby make the following Regulations:

(1)

S.I. 1988/785.

(2)

1972 c. 68. The enabling powers conferred by section 2(2) were extended by virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51).

(3)

OJ No. L175, 5.7.85, p.40.

(4)

OJ No. L73, 14.3.97, p.5.