Article 22 Use of vehicles to remove litter or seaweed from beaches

(1)

This article applies to a removal activity using a vehicle carried on by or on behalf of a local authority for the purpose of removing any litter or seaweed from a beach.

(2)

This article does not apply to any such removal activity—

(a)

that falls within sub-paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of paragraph (3); and

(b)

that is not directly connected with or necessary to the management of the site or area referred to in that sub-paragraph.

(3)

Such an activity falls within this paragraph if—

(a)

it is a plan or project likely (either alone or in combination with other plans or projects) to have a significant effect on a European site;

(b)

it is likely to have a significant effect on a Ramsar site; or

(c)

it is capable of affecting (other than insignificantly)—

(i)

the protected features of an MPA;

(ii)

any ecological or geomorphological process on which the conservation of any protected feature of an MPA is (wholly or in part) dependent.