The Environmental Information Regulations 2004
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2004/3391 |
| Year | 2004 |
- “the Act” means the Freedom of Information Act 2000;
- “applicant”, in relation to a request for environmental information, means the person who made the request;
- “appropriate records authority”, in relation to a transferred public record, has the same meaning as in section 15(5) of the Act;
- “the Commissioner” means the Information Commissioner;
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F4“the data protection principles” means the principles set out in—
- (a) Article 5(1) of the F14UK GDPR,
- (b) section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018, and
- (c) section 85(1) of that Act;
- F4“data subject” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act) ;
- “the Directive” means Council Directive 2003/4/EC on public access to environmental information and repealing Council Directive 90/313/EEC;
- “environmental information” has the same meaning as in Article 2(1) of the Directive, namely any information in written, visual, aural, electronic or any other material form on—
- (a) the state of the elements of the environment, such as air and atmosphere, water, soil, land, landscape and natural sites including wetlands, coastal and marine areas, biological diversity and its components, including genetically modified organisms, and the interaction among these elements;
- (b) factors, such as substances, energy, noise, radiation or waste, including radioactive waste, emissions, discharges and other releases into the environment, affecting or likely to affect the elements of the environment referred to in (a) ;
- (c) measures (including administrative measures) , such as policies, legislation, plans, programmes, environmental agreements, and activities affecting or likely to affect the elements and factors referred to in (a) and (b) as well as measures or activities designed to protect those elements;
- (d) reports on the implementation of environmental legislation;
- (e) cost-benefit and other economic analyses and assumptions used within the framework of the measures and activities referred to in (c) ; and
- (f) the state of human health and safety, including the contamination of the food chain, where relevant, conditions of human life, cultural sites and built structures inasmuch as they are or may be affected by the state of the elements of the environment referred to in (a) or, through those elements, by any of the matters referred to in (b) and (c) ;
... - “historical record” has the same meaning as in section 62(1) of the Act;
- F4“personal data” has the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(2) and (14) of that Act) ;
- “public authority” has the meaning given by paragraph (2) ;
- “public record” has the same meaning as in section 84 of the Act;
- “responsible authority”, in relation to a transferred public record, has the same meaning as in section 15(5) of the Act;
- “Scottish public authority” means—
- (a) a body referred to in section 80(2) of the Act; and
- (b) insofar as not such a body, a Scottish public authority as defined in section 3 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002;
- “transferred public record” has the same meaning as in section 15(4) of the Act; and
- F16“the UK GDPR” has the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(10) and (14) of that Act) ;
- “working day” has the same meaning as in section 10(6) of the Act.
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