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2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Freedom of Information Act 2000(1);
“applicant”, in relation to a request for environmental information, means the person who made the request;
“appropriate records authority”, in relation to a transferred public record, has the same meaning as in section 15(5) of the Act;
“the Commissioner” means the Information Commissioner;
[F1“the data protection principles” means the principles set out in—
Article 5(1) of the [F2UK GDPR],
section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018, and
section 85(1) of that Act;]
[F1“data subject” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act);]
“the Directive” means Council Directive 2003/4/EC(2) on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC;
“environmental information” has the same meaning as in Article 2(1) of the Directive, namely any information in written, visual, aural, electronic or any other material form on—
the state of the elements of the environment, such as air and atmosphere, water, soil, land, landscape and natural sites including wetlands, coastal and marine areas, biological diversity and its components, including genetically modified organisms, and the interaction among these elements;
factors, such as substances, energy, noise, radiation or waste, including radioactive waste, emissions, discharges and other releases into the environment, affecting or likely to affect the elements of the environment referred to in (a);
measures (including administrative measures), such as policies, legislation, plans, programmes, environmental agreements, and activities affecting or likely to affect the elements and factors referred to in (a) and (b) as well as measures or activities designed to protect those elements;
reports on the implementation of environmental legislation;
cost-benefit and other economic analyses and assumptions used within the framework of the measures and activities referred to in (c); and
the state of human health and safety, including the contamination of the food chain, where relevant, conditions of human life, cultural sites and built structures inasmuch as they are or may be affected by the state of the elements of the environment referred to in (a) or, through those elements, by any of the matters referred to in (b) and (c);
F3...
“historical record” has the same meaning as in section 62(1) of the Act;
[F1“personal data” has the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(2) and (14) of that Act);]
“public authority” has the meaning given by paragraph (2);
“public record” has the same meaning as in section 84 of the Act;
“responsible authority”, in relation to a transferred public record, has the same meaning as in section 15(5) of the Act;
“Scottish public authority” means—
a body referred to in section 80(2) of the Act; and
insofar as not such a body, a Scottish public authority as defined in section 3 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002(3);
“transferred public record” has the same meaning as in section 15(4) of the Act; and
[F4“the UK GDPR” has the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(10) and (14) of that Act);]
“working day” has the same meaning as in section 10(6) of the Act.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), “public authority” means—
(a)government departments;
(b)any other public authority as defined in section 3(1) of the Act, disregarding for this purpose the exceptions in paragraph 6 of Schedule 1 to the Act, but excluding—
(i)any body or office-holder listed in Schedule 1 to the Act only in relation to information of a specified description; or
(ii)any person designated by Order under section 5 of the Act;
(c)any other body or other person, that carries out functions of public administration; or
(d)any other body or other person, that is under the control of a person falling within sub-paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) and—
(i)has public responsibilities relating to the environment;
(ii)exercises functions of a public nature relating to the environment; or
(iii)provides public services relating to the environment.
(3) Except as provided by regulation 12(10) a Scottish public authority is not a “public authority” for the purpose of these Regulations.
[F5(4A) In these Regulations, references to [F6the UK GDPR and] the Data Protection Act 2018 have effect as if in [F7Article 2 of the UK GDPR and] Chapter 3 of Part 2 of that Act [F8(exemptions for manual unstructured processing and for national security and defence purposes)]—
(a)the references to an FOI public authority were references to a public authority as defined in these Regulations, and
(b)the references to personal data held by such an authority were to be interpreted in accordance with regulation 3(2).]
(5) Except as provided by this regulation, expressions in these Regulations which appear in the Directive have the same meaning in these Regulations as they have in the Directive.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 306(2) (with ss. 117, 209, 210, Sch. 20 para. 60); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)
F2Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 53(2)(a) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 53(2)(b) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 53(2)(c) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Reg. 2(4A) substituted for reg. 2(4) (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 306(3) (with ss. 117, 209, 210, Sch. 20 para. 60); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)
F6Words in reg. 2(4A) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 53(3)(a) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F7Words in reg. 2(4A) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 53(3)(b) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F8Words in reg. 2(4A) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/419), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 53(3)(c) (with Sch. 3 para. 112); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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