Paragraph 3 Maintenance of authorised projectI1

The undertaker may at any time maintain the authorised development, except to the extent that an agreement made under this licence provides otherwise. No maintenance works whose likely effects on the environment are not assessed in the environmental statement shall take effect, unless otherwise approved by the MMO. The Schedule of Offshore Maintenance Activities identifies those offshore maintenance activities that have been assessed in the environmental statement.

Where the MMO’s approval is required under sub-paragraph (1), such approval must only be given in relation to immaterial changes where it has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the discharging authority that the approval sought is unlikely to give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects from those assessed in the environmental statement.