S.L. 549.61 ст. 3Interpretation.

(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"the Act" means the Environment Protection Act; "competent authority" means the Strategic Environmental Assessment Focal Point, hereinafter referred to as the "SEA Focal Point" established under regulation 15;

the Convention" means the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context done in Espoo, Finland on the twenty-fifth day of February 1991; "environmental report" means the part of the plan or programme documentation containing the information required in regulation 6

*see sub-regulation (2) of regulation 1 as originally promulgated, and Legal Notice 519 of 2010. and in Schedule I;

"make available to the public" means publishing in the Gazette or in at least one daily newspaper in the English language and in the Maltese language, a notice indicating where the document may be viewed or acquired; the price of the said document shall not exceed the cost of its printing and distribution;

"plans and programmes" means plans and programmes, including those co-financed by the European Community, as well as any modifications to them:

(a) which are subject to preparation and, or adoption by an authority at national, regional or local level or which are prepared by an authority for adoption, through a legislative procedure by Parliament or Government, and

(b) which are required by legislative, regulatory or administrative provisions; "the public" shall mean one or more natural or legal persons and, in accordance with national legislation or practice, their associations, organisations or groups;

"responsible authority", in relation to a plan or programme, means the authority by which, or on whose behalf, any plan or programme is prepared. A responsible authority shall only cease to be lawfully responsible for its plan or programme at such time as a new responsible authority accepts formal responsibility in writing.

Where more than one responsible authority is responsible for a plan or programme, or parts of it, the responsible authority shall be:

(a) the authority nominated by agreement between the responsible authorities responsible for that plan or programme; or

(b) determined by the SEA Focal Point, if there is no such agreement; "strategic environmental assessment" means the preparation of an environmental report, the carrying out of consultations, the taking into account of the environmental report and the results of the consultations in decision making and the provision of information on the decision in accordance with regulations 5 to 10.

(2) All other terms shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act.

Part II General Conditions