The Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

These Regulations amend the Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 2017 (“the 2017 Regulations”) which primarily implement Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 (OJ No L 26, 28.1.2012, p. 1) on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (“the EIA Directive”) in relation to two types of project in paragraph 1 of Annex II to that Directive: projects for the restructuring of rural land holdings and projects for the use of uncultivated land or semi-natural areas for intensive agricultural purposes. The 2017 Regulations make provision for the amendments to the EIA Directive effected by Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 (OJ No L 124, 25.4.2014, p. 1).