I missed this when this material was published in late April – sorry!

Here is a link to the EU website on this

Here is the link to the UK legal documentation

Here is a link from Sian John & Rufus Howard at Royal Haskoning on the implication of the changes

Embracing the new EIA Regulations some of the issues:

New topic areas that have been introduced though the EIA Regulations implemented in May 2017:

• Whilst climate change is already an important environmental, social and economic policy concern, the new EIA Regulations extend this consideration to project level assessment and decision-making.
• Whilst historically, there has always been a strong link between land use planning and public health, the new EIA Regulations explicitly require consideration of ‘human health’. With this in mind, a number of LUC staff have recently completed an IEMA accredited course on ‘Health in EIA’. This is helping us to understand the links between the environment and health more fully and, in the current absence of formal guidance, to consider how we might develop a robust but proportionate approach to assessing this new topic.
• To ensure a high level of protection for the environment, the new EIA Regulations also require consideration of the vulnerability of projects to major accidents and/or natural disasters, and any implications of this for the likelihood of the project having significant effects on the environment.