Regulation 3 Prohibition on the granting of consent without environmental information

The Crown Estate Commissioners shall not grant consent for salmon farming in marine waters where the proposed development will be likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue inter alia of its nature, size or location unless they have taken into consideration environmental information in respect of the proposed development.

For the purposes of paragraph (1), a proposed development shall only be taken to be likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue inter alia of its nature, size or location where the Crown Estate Commissioners consider that this is the case.