The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 245 (W. 60)

Exiting The European Union, Wales

Environmental Protection, Wales

Agriculture, Wales

Town And Country Planning, Wales

The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Sift requirements satisfied

28 January 2019

Made

13 February 2019

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

13 February 2019

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2) and (3)

The requirements of paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 7 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018(1) (relating to the appropriate National Assembly for Wales scrutiny procedure for these Regulations) have been satisfied.

The Welsh Ministers have been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment, in so far as it concerns town and country planning(3) and in relation to matters relating to the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment(4); and the National Assembly for Wales has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the requirement for an assessment of the impact on the environment of projects likely to have significant effects on the environment in so far as they concern the use of uncultivated land or semi-natural areas for intensive agricultural purposes(5).

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, make the following Regulations.

(1)

2018 c.16. See section 20(1) of that Act for the definition of “devolved authority”.

(2)

1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008.

(3)

S.I. 2007/1679.

(4)

S.I. 2004/706.

(5)

S.I. 2001/2555. The functions of the National Assembly for Wales exercisable as a result of a designation made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68) were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).