# The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999, Regulation 12: Conclusion about environmental impact: drainage body

Extent: E+W

(1) After the expiry of the period specified in the notice published under regulation 10(1), the drainage body must consider (ensuring that in doing so it has, or has access to, any expertise it considers necessary)—
(a) the environmental statement and any representations made in accordance with regulation 10; and
(b) any features of the improvement works or measures to avoid, prevent, reduce or offset any likely significant effects of the improvement works on the environment.
(2) Following that consideration, the drainage body must reach a conclusion about the likely significant effects (including the expected effects deriving from the vulnerability of the improvement works to risks of major accidents or disasters) of the improvement works on—
(a) population and human health;
(b) biodiversity, with particular attention to species and habitats protected under any law of any part of the United Kingdom that implemented the Habitats Directive and the Wild Birds Directive;
(c) land, soil, water, air and climate;
(d) material assets, cultural heritage and the landscape;
(e) the interaction between the factors referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1783/regulation/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-impact-assessment-land-drainage-improvement-works-regulations-1999/regulation-12
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