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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-act-2005/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "asp/2005/15",
  "legislation_title": "Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-assessment-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any existing environmental problems which are relevant to the plan or programme including, in particular, those relating to any areas of a particular environmental importance, such as areas designated pursuant to any assimilated law extending to Scotland which implemented Council Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild birds, Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conservation of wild birds, and Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild flora and fauna (as last amended by Council Directive 2013/17/EU).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. 3 para. 4 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Assessment (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/178), regs. 1(2)(b), 3(7)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in sch. 3 para. 4 substituted (1.1.2024) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/374), reg. 1(1), sch. 1 para. 5(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in sch. 3 para. 4 inserted (30.6.2019) by The Environmental Assessment (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/178), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in sch. 3 para. 4 substituted (30.6.2019) by The Environmental Assessment (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/178), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(4)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 4 in force at 20.2.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/19, art. 2"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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