Regulation 4
SCHEDULE 1Application Bands and Fees
1. The bands and the fees are as follows—
Band and description of application | Fee for determining the application |
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Band 1 | |
Any application relating to: (a) repair or replacement of bolts, flaps, valves, decking on a pier or pontoon; (b) removal of marine growth and guano from any building or structure or any part thereof; (c) the installation of ladders at any building or structure; (d) the deposit and subsequent removal of posts for the purposes of marking channels, shallow water areas, outfalls and groynes; (e) the deposit and subsequent removal of marker buoys; (f) the use of a vehicle or vessel to remove discrete pieces of minor debris unattached to the seabed (including poles, girders, joists and objects of a similar minor nature) associated with construction, demolition, damage or disrepair of a building or structure; (g) the removal of litter using a vehicle or vessel; or (h) any activity of a similar minor nature. | £600 |
Band 2 | |
Any application which does not fall, or does not fall exclusively, within the descriptions in Band 1 and relates to a specified activity. | £1,920 |
Band 3 | |
Any application which does not fall, or does not fall exclusively, within the descriptions in Band 1 or Band 2. | A fee calculated at s rate of £120 per hour |
2. In paragraph 1, subject to the exception at paragraph 3, “specified activity” (“gweithgaredd penodedig”) means any activity falling within one or more of the following—
(a)item 1 (deposits within the UK marine licensing area etc.) of section 66(1) of the Act;
(b)item 7 (construction, alteration or improvement of works etc.) of section 66(1) of the Act;
(c)item 8 (use of vehicle, vessel, aircraft, marine structure or floating container to remove substances etc.) of section 66(1) of the Act: or
(d)item 9 (to carry out any form of dredging etc.) of section 66(1) of the Act but only in so far as item 9 relates to maintenance dredging.
3. Specified activity does not include—
(a)any activity to be carried out in the course of a project of a type specified in Annex I to Council Directive 2011/92/EU(1)on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment;
(b)any activity to be carried out in the course of a project of a type specified in Annex II to that Directive, if it is likely because of its size, nature or location to have significant effects on the environment;
(c)an activity with respect to which an environmental impact assessment is required by virtue of regulation 5 (requirement of assessment by agreement) of the Marine Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2007(2);
(d)an activity that involves both items 7 and 9 described in paragraph 2(b) and (d);
(e)any activity or activities which has, or, in the case of more than one activity taken together have, an estimated cost of more than £1,000,000.
OJ L 26, 28.1.2012, p.1.
S.I. 2007/1518; amended by S.I. 2011/735, 1043, 2013/755 and 2015/446.