Regulation 17 Amendments to Article 11

(1)

Article 11 is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 1—

(a)

for the words from “Commission” to “Member States” substitute “Secretary of State”;

(b)

for “Union” substitute “United Kingdom”.

(3)

In paragraph 2, for “Commission, the Agency and the Member States” substitute “appropriate authority and the competent authority”.

(4)

For paragraph 3 substitute—

“3.

Information on the health and safety of humans and the environment shall not be regarded as confidential.

This does not limit the effect of—

(a)
in relation to England, Northern Ireland and Wales, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004^f1;

(b)
in relation to Scotland, the Environment Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004^f2.”

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2004/3391, amended by the Data Protection Act 2018 (c.12); and by S.I. 2015/1897, 2018/942, 2018/1216 (W. 249), 2019/419 (amendments pending).
f2: S.S.I. 2004/520, amended by the Data Protection Act 2018; S.S.I. 2013/127; and by S.I. 2019/419 (amendments pending).