S.L. 549.46 Art. 6Requirement for development consent and Environmental ImpactAssessment or Screening.

(1) Before any consent is given for a project likely to have significant effects on the environment due to, inter alia, its nature, size, scale, position or location, such project shall be subject to a requirement for development consent as well as an assessment of its effects on the environment in line with these regulations. No development consent shall be granted authorising any such project unless the required assessment or screening, as relevant, has been duly undertaken and completed in accordance with these regulations.

(2) The environmental impact assessment, compliant with these regulations, shall be integrated into the development consent procedure in accordance with the regulations and into any other relevant procedures or binding decisions that may be required to comply with these regulations, or otherwise synchronised with such procedures and decisions as the Authority deems most appropriate to ensure effective and timely evaluation of the environmental implications of the project and adequate factoring into the relevant decisions.