Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 1999 (SI 1999 No. 293).

Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000 No. 2867).

In force from 14/3/99.

2000 Regulations in force from 15/10/00.

Assess effects of certain public or private projects on environment before development consent granted for them by public authorities. The 1999 Regulations revoke, and re-enact with amendments, the Town and Country Planning (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988 (as well as later instruments amending them and various supporting pieces of legislation).

Implement the EC Directive 85/337 on the Assessment of the Effects of certain Public and Private Projects on the Environment, and now the amending EC Directive 97/11. Note that the latter, which the 1999 Regulations were introduced to implement, considerably extends the range of projects requiring an assessment and clarifies the procedures to be used when conducting and recording the assessment.

Note that although the 1999 Regulations are the main legal instrument for implementing EC Directive 85/337 (as amended by EC Directive 97/11) through UK planning law, the EC Environmental Assessment Directives have also been implemented in the UK through a series of parallel regulations which specifically cover developments not normally subject to planning permission (and therefore not controlled under UK planning law), e.g. transport (trunk roads and motorways), off-shore oil drilling and fish-farming (see Complementary Legislation).

2000 Regulations amend the 1999 Regulations in relation to applications to mineral planning authorities...