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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-liability-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/266",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Liability (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-liability-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, except where the context otherwise requires—\n“activity” means any activity carried out in the course of an economic activity, a business or an undertaking, irrespectively of its private or public, profit or non‑profit character;\n...\nDirective 92/43/EEC” means Council Directive of 21st May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora ;\n“Directive 2000/60/EC” means the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23rd October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy ;\n“Directive 2001/18/EC” means the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12th March 2001 on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms ;\n“Directive 2008/56/EC” means Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive);\n“Directive 2009/147/EC” means Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds,\n“enactment” has the meaning assigned to it in section 126(1) (interpretation) of the Scotland Act 1998 ;\n“environmental damage” means damage falling within regulation 4;\n“genetically modified organisms” has the meaning assigned to it by Directive 2001/18/EC;\n“marine waters” means waters classified as marine waters pursuant to Directive 2008/56/EC;\n“protected species and natural habitats” means—\n(a)the species mentioned in Article 4(2) of Directive 2009/147/EC or listed in Annex I to that Directive or the species listed in Annexes II and IV to Directive 92/43/EEC; and\n(b)the habitats of species mentioned in Article 4(2) of Directive 2009/147/EC or listed in Annex I to that Directive or the habitats of species listed in Annex II to Directive 92/43/EEC or the natural habitats listed in Annex I to Directive 92/43/EEC and the breeding sites or resting places of the species listed in Annex IV to Directive 92/43/EEC;\n“the water environment” has the meaning assigned to it by section 3(2) of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003.\n(2) Unless otherwise defined in these Regulations, an expression used in Directive 2004/35/CE of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21st April 2004 on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage has the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in that Directive.\n(3) A reference in these Regulations to anything done in writing or produced in written form includes a reference to an electronic communication (as defined in section 15 of the Electronic Communications Act 2000 ) which has been recorded in written form and is capable of being reproduced in that form.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (31.10.2019) by virtue of The Environmental Liability etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/276), regs. 1(1)(a), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (19.7.2015) by The Environmental Liability (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/214), regs. 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (31.10.2019) by The Environmental Liability etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/276), regs. 1(1)(a), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (19.7.2015) by The Environmental Liability (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/214), regs. 1, 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (31.10.2019) by The Environmental Liability etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/276), regs. 1(1)(a), 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (19.7.2015) by The Environmental Liability (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/214), regs. 1, 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 206, 22.7.1992, p.7, as last amended by Council Directive 2006/105/EC (O.J. No. L 363, 20.12.2006, p.368)."
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    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 327, 22.12.2000, p.1, as last amended by Directive 2008/105/EC (O.J. No. L 348, 24.12.2008, p.84)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 106, 17.4.2001, p.1, as last amended by Directive 2008/27/EC (O.J. No. L 81, 20.3.2008, p.45)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1998 c.46."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "O.J. No. L 143, 30.4.2004, p.56, as amended by Directive 2006/21/EC (O.J. No. L 102, 11.4.2006, p.15)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "2000 c.7, section 15 was relevantly amended by paragraph 158 of Schedule 17 to the Communications Act 2003 (c.21)."
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  },
  "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."
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