The Environmental Impact Assessment and Natural Habitats (Extraction of Minerals by Marine Dredging) (Scotland) Regulations 2007

Further information

10.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies where the Scottish Ministers consider–

(a) that the environmental statement fails to contain sufficient information of a description specified in any of the paragraphs of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to enable the environmental effects of the proposed dredging to be fully considered; and

(b) having regard in particular to current knowledge and methods of assessment, that the applicant can reasonably be required to supply further information of such description.

(2) Where this paragraph applies, the Scottish Ministers shall request the applicant to supply such further information as they consider necessary and shall notify the applicant of–

(a) the number of copies of the further information that the applicant is required to supply; and

(b) the period within which such further information shall be supplied.

(3) Where the applicant fails, within such period as the Scottish Ministers have specified, or such further period as the Scottish Ministers may allow, to comply with any request of the Scottish Ministers under this regulation, the application shall be deemed to be withdrawn at the end of such period and the fee shall be refunded if the Scottish Ministers have not yet published a notice under regulation 11(1).