Updated Guidance – The Offshore Petroleum Production and Pipelines (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999 (as amended) – A Guide (link)
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has updated its petroleum production and pipelines environmental impact assessment (EIA) guidance.
The changes relate to:
– The EIA Directive
– Revision and/or renewal of production consents
– Excluded projects
– Competent Experts
– Physical impacts
– Marine licensing
– Submitting the ES
– Appendices A and B (relating to revision and renewal of production consents, and ES submission).
Source: BEIS.