The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

Made: 29th November 2006

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 30th November 2006

Coming into force: 1st January 2007

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Citation, commencement and extent

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Interpretation

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Application

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Screening decision – uncultivated land project and semi-natural areas

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Screening decision – restructuring project

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Thresholds

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Application for screening decision

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Requirement for consent

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Scoping opinion

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Provision of information

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Application for consent

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Additional Information

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Other EEA States

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Transborder projects

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The consent decision

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Review of decisions and consents

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Appeals (general provisions)

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Determination of appeals by written representations

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Determination of appeals by an inquiry

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Application to the court by person aggrieved

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Access to review procedures before a court

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Offences

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Stop notices

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Penalties for contravention of a stop notice

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Reinstatement

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Powers of entry and default powers

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Offences by bodies corporate

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Revocation

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Transitional provisions

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SCHEDULE 1 — Thresholds for a project involving restructuring of rural land holdings on agricultural land wholly outwith a sensitive area

Column 1	Column 2
Restructuring project involving the addition or removal of any field boundary	6 km subject to a maximum removal of 0.5km of hedge or dry-stane dyke and maximum addition of 1 km of vehicle track
Restructuring project which involves an area of land	200 hectares
Restructuring project involving the addition, removal or redistribution of a volume of earth or other material in relation to land	5,000 cubic metres

SCHEDULE 2 — SELECTION CRITERIA FOR A SCREENING DECISION

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SCHEDULE 3 — INFORMATION FOR INCLUSION IN AN ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT

PART I

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PART II

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SCHEDULE 4 — REVIEW OF DECISIONS AND CONSENTS

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SCHEDULE 5 — DELEGATION OF APPELLATE FUNCTIONS

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Signed

ROSS FINNIE — A member of the Scottish Executive — 2006-11-29

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 68 (“the 1972 Act”). Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3). The function conferred upon the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2) of the 1972 Act, insofar as within devolved competence, was transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.

[^f00002]: 1948 c. 45.

[^f00003]: 1991 c. 28.

[^f00004]: 1995 c. 25.

[^f00005]: O.J. No. L 175, 5.7.85, p.40.

[^f00006]: O.J. No. L 73, 14.3.97, p5.

[^f00007]: O.J. No. L 156, 25.6.03, p.17.

[^f00008]: O.J. No. L 206, 22.7.92, p.7, as last amended by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded; O.J. No. L 236, 23.9.2003, p.667-70. See Annex II: List referred to in Article 20 of the Act of Accession, 16 Environment, C. Nature protection.

[^f00009]: S.I. 1994/2716, as amended.

[^f00010]: 2000 c. 7.

[^f00011]: S.S.I. 1999/1.

[^f00012]: S.S.I. 1999/43.

[^f00013]: asp 6.

[^f00014]: See Command Paper 9424.

[^f00015]: 1979 c. 46.

[^f00016]: The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 52) (“the 1972 Act”) was repealed by the Planning (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. ) (“the 1997 Act”) subject to a saving in respect of any area which on 1st April 1992 was designated as a National Scenic Area under section 262C of the 1972 Act; section 5 of and paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to the 1997 Act.

[^f00017]: asp 10.

[^f00018]: S.S.I. 2004/520.

[^f00019]: S.I. 2004/3391.

[^f00020]: S.I. 2006/2362.

[^f00021]: 1973 c. 65. Section 210 was amended by the Housing and Planning Act 1986 (c. 63), Schedule 11, Part II, paragraph 39.

[^f00022]: S.S.I. 2002/6.

Stop notices

Penalties for contravention of a stop notice

Reinstatement

Powers of entry and default powers

Offences by bodies corporate

Revocation

Transitional provisions

Editorial notes

[^key-cfbf288ec8a2cbdba65f3073ce89b9ab]: Regulations revoked (16.5.2017) by The Agriculture, Land Drainage and Irrigation Projects (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/114), regs. 1, 49(1) (with regs. 3, 28, 40, 49(2)-(4), 50(3), 51(3))

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