The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 2017

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2017 No. 565 (W. 134)

Agriculture, Wales

The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 2017

Made

20 April 2017

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

24 April 2017

Coming into force

16 May 2017

The Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) in relation to measures relating to—

(a) the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment(2); and

(b) the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora(3).

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in that section and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for any reference in these Regulations to EU instruments to be construed as a reference to those instruments as amended from time to time.

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972.

(1)

1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by section 3(3) of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006.

(2)

S.I. 2001/2555 in relation to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment.

(3)

S.I. 2002/248 in relation to measures relating to the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora.