Amendment of the Drainage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017
3.—(1) The Drainage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017(1)are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1)—
(a)omit the definition of “another EEA State”;
(b)after the definition of “the Drainage Order” insert—
““EEA agreement” means the agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2 May 1992, together with the Protocol adjusting that Agreement signed at Brussels on 17 March 1993, as modified or supplemented from time to time, but does not include any retained direct EU legislation;”;
(c)for the definition of “EEA State” substitute—
““EEA State”, in relation to a time, means—
a state which at that time is a member State of the European Union, or
any other state which at that time is a party to the EEA agreement;”;
(d)omit the definition of “Union Legislation”.
(3) In regulations 2(3), 4(3), 8(2)(d) and 9(2)(f), for “another EEA State” substitute “an EEA State”.
(4) In regulation 4(1)(a)—
(a)omit the words from the beginning to “Article 7 of the Directive)”;
(b)omit “, provided the objectives of the Directive are met”.
(5) In regulation 8—
(a)in paragraph (1), for “Union legislation” substitute “retained EU law”;
(b)in paragraph (7), for “Union legislation” substitute “retained EU law”.
(6) In regulation 15—
(a)in the heading, for “another EEA State” substitute “an EEA State”;
(b)in paragraph (1), for “another EEA State”, in each place it occurs, substitute “an EEA State”;
(c)in paragraph (3)(a), for the words from “referred to in Article 6(1) of the Directive” to the end substitute “designated by the EEA State concerned to be consulted about the proposed drainage works and to the public concerned in that State”;
(d)in paragraph (4)—
(i)omit “in accordance with Article 7(4) of the Directive”;
(ii)in sub-paragraph (b), for “the other EEA State” substitute “that EEA State”.
(7) In regulation 17(2)(b), for “Union legislation” substitute “retained EU law”.