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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-production-unloading-and-storage-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2020/schedule-5/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1497",
  "legislation_title": "The Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, Production, Unloading and Storage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-production-unloading-and-storage-environmental-impact-assessment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Type and characteristics of the potential impact",
  "text": "The likely significant effects of the project on the environment in relation to the matters listed under paragraphs 1 and 2—\n(a) having regard to the impact of the project on—\n(i) population and human health;\n(ii) biodiversity, with particular attention to species and habitats protected under any law of any part of the United Kingdom that implemented Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora and Directive 2009/147/EC on the conservation of wild birds;\n(iii) land, soil, water, air and climate;\n(iv) material assets, cultural heritage and the landscape;\n(v) the interaction between the factors referred to in paragraphs (i) to (iv); and\n(b) taking into account—\n(i) the magnitude and spatial extent of the impact (for example geographical area and size of the population likely to be affected);\n(ii) the nature of the impact;\n(iii) any impact on the environment in other countries;\n(iv) the intensity and complexity of the impact;\n(v) the probability of the impact;\n(vi) the expected onset, duration, frequency and reversibility of the impact;\n(vii) the cumulation of the impact with the impact of other existing or approved projects;\n(viii) the possibility of effectively reducing the impact.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "O.J. L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7. The Directive was amended by Directive 97/62/EC, O.J. L 305, 8.11.1997, p. 42; Regulation (EC) No 1882/2003, O.J. L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1; Directive 2006/105/EC, O.J. L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 368; and Directive 2013/17/EU, O.J. L 158, 10.6. 2013, p. 193."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "OJ L 20, 26.1.2010, p. 7. The Directive was amended by Directive 2013/17/EU, O.J. L 158, 10.6.2013, p. 193 and Regulation (EU) 2019/1010, O.J. L 170, 25.6.2019, p.115."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 3 in force at 31.12.2020 immediately before 11 p.m., see reg. 1(1)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1497/schedule/5/paragraph/3",
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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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