The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 No. 1154

SCHEDULE 5 Environmental permits

PART 1 Grant, variation, transfer and surrender of environmental permits

Public participation in relation to regulator-initiated variations

8.—(1) If this paragraph applies, the regulator must notify the operator—

(a) that the public participation procedures in sub-paragraph (2) apply,

(b) of the variation it proposes to the environmental permit, and

(c) of any fee prescribed in respect of this paragraph in a charging scheme made by the regulator under section 41 of the 1995 Act or by the appropriate authority under regulation 66.

(2) The regulator must—

(a) take the steps it considers appropriate to inform the public consultees of the proposed variation,

(b) invite the operator and the public consultees to make representations on the proposed variation, and

(c) specify to the operator and the public consultees the address to which and the period within which representations are to be made.