SCHEDULE 5E+WEnvironmental permits

PART 1E+WGrant, variation, transfer and surrender of environmental permits

Notification of a determination or decisionE+W

17.—(1) As soon as is reasonably practicable after it determines an application or decides to make a regulator-initiated variation, the regulator must comply with [F1sub-paragraphs (2) and (2A)].

(2) The regulator must—

(a)notify the applicant or, for a regulator-initiated variation, the operator of—

(i)its determination or decision,

(ii)the rights of appeal the applicant or operator has under regulation 31, and

(iii)the requirements relating to the exercise of those rights in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Schedule 6, and

(b)if paragraph 10 applies, notify the appropriate authority of the determination or decision.

[F2(2A) Where paragraph 10 applies to an application or regulator-initiated variation relating to an installation described in paragraph 10(5), the regulator must—

(a)notify the authorities of the member State consulted in accordance with paragraph 10(2A)(a) of the determination or decision, and

(b)provide those authorities with the information described in Article 24(2) of the Industrial Emission Directive.]

(3) In this paragraph, “determination” and “decision” include the reasons for the determination or decision.