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Schedule 4 Environmental factorsF1

England and Wales

The factors specified are—

(a)

population and human health;

(b)

biodiversity, with particular attention to species and habitats protected under F2any law of any part of the United Kingdom that implemented Directive 92/43 and Directive 2009/147;

(c)

land, soil, water, air and climate;

(d)

material assets, cultural heritage and the landscape;

(e)

the interaction between the factors mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d); and

(f)

the expected effects on those factors deriving from the vulnerability of the project to risks of major accidents or disasters that are relevant to the project concerned.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 4 substituted (16.5.2017) by The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/592), regs. 1(1), 27 (with reg. 28)

F2

Words in Sch. 4 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/25), regs. 1(1), 3(6)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)