Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) screening opinions: EIR release
- Published
- 10 October 2024
- Directorate
- Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
- Topic
- Farming and rural, Public sector
- FOI reference
- EIR/202400429945
- Date received
- 2 September 2024
- Date responded
- 25 September 2024
Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
Information requested
Copies of all the EIA screening opinions made by RPID in 2024.
Response
As the information you have requested is 'environmental information' for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
I enclose a copy of all of the information you requested.
An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exception is not subject to the 'public interest test', so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception.
About FOI
The Scottish Government is committed to publishing all information released in response to Freedom of Information requests. View all FOI responses at http://www.gov.scot/foi-responses.
- File type
- 1 page PDF
- File size
- 25.3 kB
- File type
- 12 page PDF
- File size
- 5.7 MB
- File type
- File size
- 6.9 MB
- File type
- 18 page PDF
- File size
- 2.8 MB
- File type
- 20 page PDF
- File size
- 9.7 MB
- File type
- 3 page PDF
- File size
- 84.2 kB
Contact
Please quote the FOI reference
Central Correspondence Unit
Email: contactus@gov.scot
Phone: 0300 244 4000
The Scottish Government
St Andrews House
Regent Road
Edinburgh
EH1 3DG
There is a problem
Thanks for your feedback