Paragraph 4 I1

England and Wales

(1)

A description of the factors likely to be significantly affected by the proposed project, covering the direct effects and any indirect, secondary, cumulative, transboundary, short-term, medium-term and long-term, permanent and temporary, positive and negative effects of the project, including—

(a)

population and human health;

(b)

biodiversity with specific attention on species F1protected under EU-derived domestic legislation which transposed the Habitats Directive and the Birds Directive F2, as may be amended from time to time;

(c)

land (for example land take), soil (for example organic matter, erosion, compaction, sealing), water (for example hydromorphological changes, quantity and quality), air and climate (for example greenhouse gas emissions, impacts relevant to adaptation);

(d)

material assets, including architectural and archaeological aspects and landscape.

F3This description should take into account the environmental protection objectives established at European Union level as they were immediately before IP completion day (including in particular those established under the Habitats Directive and the Birds Directive or at national level. .

(2)

In this paragraph—

“the Birds Directive” (“y Gyfarwyddeb Adar”) means Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/245), regs. 1(2)(3), 5(11)(a)(i)(aa); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(1)(b) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/245), regs. 1(2)(3), 5(11)(a)(i)(bb); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Words in Sch. 3 para. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/245), regs. 1(2)(3), 5(11)(a)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1324, regs. 1(2), 2(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Commencement

I1: Sch. 3 para. 4 in force at 16.5.2017, see reg. 1(3)