{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999/regulation-10B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999/regulation-10B.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2892",
  "legislation_title": "Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/10B",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10B",
  "heading": "Conclusion about environmental impact",
  "text": "(1) Before granting consent to carry out a project, the ONR must comply with paragraphs (2) and (3).\n(2) The ONR must consider (ensuring that in doing so it has or has access to any expertise it considers necessary)—\n(a) the environmental statement;\n(b) any further information or evidence provided by the licensee in accordance with regulation 10;\n(c) any relevant information received through any consultations under regulations 8 to 10A;\n(d) the outcome of any consultation under regulation 12;\n(e) any features of the project, or measures which the licensee proposes to take, which would have the effect of avoiding, preventing, reducing or offsetting any likely significant adverse effects of the project on the environment.\n(3) The ONR must then reach a conclusion about the likely significant effects of the project (including the expected effects deriving from the vulnerability of the project to risks of major accidents or disasters) on—\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 the Habitats Directive and the Wild Birds Directive;\n(c) land, soil, water, air and climate;\n(d) material assets, cultural heritage and the landscape; and\n(e) the interaction between the factors referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 9-10C substituted for regs. 9, 10 (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 11 (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 10B(3)(b) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Ionising Radiation (Environmental and Public Protection) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/24), regs. 1(1), 2(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2892/regulation/10B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:39:08.821548+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."
}