Regulations, 2015

L.N. 211 of 2015

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Environmental Impact Assessment (Amendment)

Regulations, 2015

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 61 of the

Environment and Development Planning Act, the Minister for

Sustainable Development, the Environment and Climate Change and

the Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Simplification of

Administrative Processes, after consultation with the Malta

Environment and Planning Authority, have made the following

regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is the Environmental Citation and

Impact Assessment (Amendment) Regulations, 2015, and these scope.

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Environmental S.L. 504.79

Impact Assessment Regulations, 2015, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal regulations".

(2) The purpose of these regulations is to transpose and

implement the provisions related to Regulation (EU) No. 347/2013 of

the European Parliament and the Council on guidelines for trans-

European energy infrastructure, to include reference to the co-

ordination of environmental assessment procedures arising from the

requirements of Council Directives 2014/52/EU, 92/43/EEC and

other related Union legislation.

Immediately after sub-regulation (9) of regulation 3 of the Amends

principal regulations, there shall be added the following new sub- regulation

the principal

regulations

regulations.

B

" Coordination

(10) In accordance with the requirements

of procedures

arising from Regulation (EU) No. 347/2013 on

in relation to

guidelines

for

trans-European

energy

projects of

common

infrastructure, the Director of Environment

interest.

Protection shall ensure that for Projects of

Common Interest (as defined in Annex IV of

Regulation

347/2013),

environmental

assessment procedures arising from the

requirements of Council Directives 2014/52/EU

("the Environmental Impact Assessment

Directive"),

92/43/EEC

("the

Habitats

Directive"),

2009/147/EC

("the

Birds

Directive") and any other relevant sectoral

Directives, as appropriate, are to be carried out

in a coordinated manner.

(11) Where the Minister is aware that a

Procedures to

be following

Project of Common Interest in Malta is likely to

when Projects

of Common

have significant effects on the environment in

Interest are

another State, or where a State is likely to be

likely to have

transboundary

significantly affected, the provisions of sub-

impacts.

regulation (10) shall also apply. The coordinated

approach shall also take into consideration the

Convention on access to information, public

participation in decision-making and access to

justice in environmental matters ("the Aarhus

Convention") and the Espoo Convention on

environmental impact assessment in a

transboundary

context

("the

Espoo

Convention"), where applicable.".

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