The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 2007

The consent application

11.—(1) An application for consent must include an environmental statement and must be made to the Welsh Ministers.

(2) The applicant for consent must provide the Welsh Ministers with as many copies of the application as they reasonably require.

(3) After receiving the application for consent, the Welsh Ministers must—

(a) send a copy of the application to any of the consultation bodies they consider appropriate, and inform them that they may make representations within 6 weeks of the date they received the application; and

(b) in order to ensure that members of the public concerned are given an opportunity to make representations before the application is determined, publish in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the relevant land and on the Welsh Assembly Government website a notice—

(i) stating that the application has been made;

(ii) specifying an address at which copies of the application can be inspected free of charge, and where copies of the application may be taken (for which a reasonable charge may be made), at all reasonable hours within 6 weeks of the date the notice is published;

(iii) stating that representations on the likely environmental effects of the project may be made in writing to the Welsh Ministers at the address specified under paragraph (ii) within 6 weeks of the date the notice is published;

(iv) stating that, if consent is granted, it will be subject to the conditions in regulation 17(2), and any other conditions that the Welsh Ministers think fit;

(v) stating, if relevant, which of the other EEA States, the authorities referred to in Article 6(1) of the EIA Directive and the public concerned in such EEA State, will be consulted on the application.