{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-northern-ireland-order-1993/article-67B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-northern-ireland-order-1993/article-67B.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1993/3160",
  "legislation_title": "The Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/roads-northern-ireland-order-1993",
  "path": "article/67B",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "67B",
  "heading": "Projects likely to have significant effects on the environment in an EEA State",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies if—\n(a) it appears to the Department that a project is subject to environmental impact assessment and is likely to have a significant effect on the environment in an EEA State ; or\n(b) an EEA State the environment of which is likely to be significantly affected by such a project asks the Department for information about the project.\n(2) The Department must give the EEA State—\n(a) a description of the project, together with any information available to the Department which suggests that the project may have a significant effect on the environment in the EEA State;\n(b) any information which the Department has as to the nature of the decision which may be taken on the project;\n(c) such information about the procedure required by this Part as the Department considers appropriate; and\n(d) a reasonable period within which to indicate whether the EEA State wishes to participate in that procedure.\n(3) Paragraph (2)(a) and (b) must be complied with no later than the date of publication referred to in Article 67(4D) .\n(4) If the EEA State indicates that it wishes to participate in the procedure required by this Part, the Department must give to the EEA State—\n(a) a copy of the EIA report for the project (if it has not already done so); . . .\n(b) the information required by Article 67A(3A) to be included in the notice under Article 67A(3); and\n(c) any information about the procedure required by this Part which it considers appropriate to give and which has not already been given to the EEA State.\n(5) The Department must ensure that the EEA State concerned is given an opportunity, before the decision as to whether to proceed with the project is taken, to forward to the Department, within a reasonable time, the opinions of the authorities which the EEA State has designated to be consulted about the project and of the public concerned in that State in accordance with Article 6(1) of the Directive and of the members of its public who are likely to be concerned.\n(6) The Department must, ... -\n(a) enter into consultations with the EEA State concerned regarding, among other matters, the potential significant effects of the project on the environment of that EEA State and the measures envisaged to reduce or eliminate those effects; and\n(b) agree with that EEA State a reasonable period for those consultations.\n(7) Where an EEA State has been consulted in accordance with paragraph (6) the Department must, after deciding whether to proceed with the project to which the EIA report relates, inform the EEA State of the decision and give it documents containing the matters referred to in Article67A(8)(c) .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "SR 1999/89"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B(1) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/87), regs. 1(1), 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/377), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B substituted (10.9.2007) by Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/346), reg. 2(4)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B substituted (10.9.2007) by Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/346), reg. 2(4)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 67B(2)(c) substituted (10.9.2007) by Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/346), reg. 2(4)(b) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B(3) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/87), regs. 1(1), 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B(4) substituted (10.9.2007) by Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/346), reg. 2(4)(c)(i) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B(4)(a) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/87), regs. 1(1), 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in art. 67B(4) omitted (10.9.2007) by virtue of Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/346), reg. 2(4)(c)(ii) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Art. 67B(4)(b)(c) substituted (10.9.2007) for art. 67B(4)(b) by Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/346), reg. 2(4)(c)(iii) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Art. 67B(5) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/87), regs. 1(1), 5(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/377), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B(6) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/377), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Art. 67B(7) substituted (10.9.2007) by Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/346), reg. 2(4)(d) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B(7) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/87), regs. 1(1), 5(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in art. 67B(7) substituted (16.5.2017) by The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 (S.R. 2017/87), regs. 1(1), 5(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Art. 67B heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/377), regs. 1(2), 2(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 67B modified (31.12.2020) by The Roads (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/377), regs. 1(2), 3(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1993/3160/article/67B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:44:47.915792+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."
}