UK agency and legislative context - Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment - page 64

Water Resources
The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2003 (SI 164)
Table 3.2 UK Government EIA guidance
DoE 1991. Monitoring environmental assessment and planning. London: HMSO
DoE 1994a. Evaluation of environmental information for planning projects: a good practice guide.
London: HMSO
DoE 1994b. Good practice on the evaluation of environmental information for planning projects:
research report. London: HMSO
DoE 1995. Preparation of environmental statements for planning projects that require
environmental assessment . London: HMSO
DoE 1996. Changes in the quality of environmental statements for planning projects. London:
HMSO
Environment Agency 1996. A scoping handbook for projects. London: HMSO
DETR 1997c. Mitigation Measures in Environmental Statements. London: HMSO
DETR 1999. Circular 02/99 Environmental Impact Assessment. London: HMSO
Planning Service (Northern Ireland) Development Control Advice Note 10 1999. Belfast: NI
Planning Service
Scottish Executive Development Department Circular 1999 15/99 The environmental impact
assessment regulations 1999. Edinburgh: SEDD
Scottish Executive Rural Affairs Department 1999. Guide to the environmental impact assessment
(Fish Farming in Marine Water) regulations 1999. Edinburgh: SERAD
Scottish Executive Development Department 1999. Planning Advice Note 58. Edinburgh: SEDD
National Assembly for Wales 1999. Circular 11/99 Environmental Impact Assessment. Cardiff:
National Assembly
DETR 2000. Environmental impact assessment: a guide to the procedures. Tonbridge: Thomas
Telford
many regulations to ensure that all of the Directive's requirements are met. The
regulations are supplemented by an array of EIA guidance from government and other
bodies (Table 3.2). In addition, the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 allows the
government to require EIA for other projects that fall outside the Directive.
In contrast to the US system of EIA, the EC EIA Directive applies to both public and
private sector development. The developer carries out the EIA, and the resulting EIS
must be handed in with the application for authorization. In England and Wales, most of
the developments listed in Annexes I and II of the Directive fall under the remit of the
planning system, and are thus covered by the Town and Country Planning
(Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1999 (the T&CP Regulations)
(previously the Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects)
Regulations 1988). Prior to the revised regulations in 1999 various additions and