{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999/schedule-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999/schedule-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2228",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-forestry-england-and-wales-regulations-1999",
  "path": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Environmental factors",
  "text": "The factors specified are—\n(a) population and human health;\n(b) biodiversity, with particular attention to species and habitats protected under any law of any part of the United Kingdom that implemented Directive 92/43 and Directive 2009/147;\n(c) land, soil, water, air and climate;\n(d) material assets, cultural heritage and the landscape;\n(e) the interaction between the factors mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d); and\n(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.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2228/schedule/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:54.913902+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}