http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/102/regulation/21The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017texttext/xmlenStatute Law DatabaseTOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING2024-12-21Expert Participation2024-12-05 These Regulations revoke and re-enact and update, with amendments and savings, the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (“the 2011 Regulations”). These Regulations apply in relation to Scotland only. PART 5 211Where, in relation to an EIA application the developer submits to the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, an EIA report the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, must publish as soon as possible a notice in accordance with this regulation.2Notice under paragraph (1) must—adescribe the application and the proposed development to which the EIA report relates;bstate that the proposed development is subject to environmental impact assessment and, where relevant, state that it is likely to have significant effects on the environment in an EEA State;cstate that the EIA report is available for inspection free of charge and the times and places at which, and the means by which, the EIA report is available for inspection;dstate how copies of the EIA report may be obtained;estate the cost of a copy of the EIA report;fstate how and by what date representations may be made (being a date not earlier than 30 days after last date on which the notice is published);gprovide details of the arrangements for public participation in the decision making procedure including a description of how notice is to be given of any subsequent submission by the developer of additional information and how representations in relation to that additional information may be made; andhstate the nature of possible decisions to be taken in relation to the application and provide details of the authority by which such decisions are to be taken.3Notice under paragraph (1) must be published—aon the application website;bin The Edinburgh Gazette; andcin a newspaper circulating in the locality in which the proposed development is situated.4The developer must, at the time of submitting the EIA report, pay the cost to be incurred by the planning authority or the Scottish Ministers, as the case may be, in arranging publication of the notice in accordance with paragraph (3)(b) and (c).5The planning authority must—aplace a copy of the EIA report in Part I of the register together with a copy of the related application; andbmake copies of the EIA report and other documents submitted with the application available for inspection—ion the application website; andiiat an office of the planning authority where the register may be inspected.Word in reg. 21(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Town and Country Planning and Electricity Works (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/80), regs. 1, 5(5) (as amended by S.S.I. 2019/274, regs. 1, 2(2) and S.S.I. 2020/310, regs. 1, 2(2), 4(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)