Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 November 2021
742. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the provisions of regulation Statutory Instrument S.I. 538/2001 are active and applicable to all current proposed afforestation applications. [57416/21]
View answerPart 5 of the European Communities (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Amendment) Regulations 2001 (S.I. No. 538 of 2001) introduced a statutory consent system for initial afforestation, giving effect to the Council Directive of 27 June 1985 (No. 85/337/EEC, O.J. No. L175/40, 5 July 1985), as amended by Council Directive of 3 March 1997 (No. 97/11/EC, O.J. No. L73/5, 14 March 1997).
The entirety of Part 5 of the 2001 regulations was revoked and replaced in 2010 by the European Communities (Forest Consent and Assessment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. No. 558 of 2010).
The Forestry Act 2014 was commenced on 24th May 2017 and the Forestry Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 191 of 2017) came into operation on the same date, the latter in turn revoking and replacing the 2010 regulations.
