Wildlife (Amendment) Act, 2000
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Amendment of European Communities (Natural Habitats) Regulations, 1997. |
75.—The European Communities (Natural Habitats) Regulations, 1997 ( S.I. No. 94 of 1997 ), are hereby amended— | |
(a) in Regulation 2, by the substitution of the following for the definition given to “European site”: | ||
“‘European site' means— | ||
(a) a site— | ||
(i) notified for the purposes of Regulation 4, subject to any amendments made to it by virtue of Regulation 5, or | ||
(ii) transmitted to the Commission in accordance with Regulation 5(4), or | ||
(iii) added by virtue of Regulation 6 to the list transmitted to the Commission in accordance with Regulation 5(4), | ||
but only until the adoption in respect of the site of a decision by the Commission under Article 21 of the Habitats Directive for the purposes of the third paragraph of Article 4(2) of that Directive, | ||
(b) a site adopted by the Commission as a site of community importance for the purposes of Article 4(2) of the Habitats Directive in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 21 of that Directive, | ||
(c) a special area of conservation, | ||
(d) an area classified pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 4 of the Birds Directive;”, | ||
and | ||
(b) by the revocation of Regulations 21, 22 and 39. |