Sch 2 para 3 Procedure for reaching a screening opinion
(1) The appropriate authority must, if it considers that it has not been provided with sufficient information to enable it to give a screening opinion, notify the applicant in writing of the matters on which it requires further information and the applicant must supply that further information to the appropriate authority within such period as the appropriate authority may reasonably require. (2) The applicant must supply the appropriate authority with such number of additional copies of the documentation as the appropriate authority may reasonably require. (3) The appropriate authority need not deal further with the request for a screening opinion until the applicant has complied with the requirements of sub-paragraphs (1) and (2). (4) Where an applicant has failed to comply with the requirements of sub-paragraph (1) or (2) within such reasonable period as the appropriate authority has specified, or such longer period as the appropriate authority may reasonably allow— (a) the regulator may treat the application to which the request relates as having been withdrawn, and (b) the appropriate authority (if the regulator is not also the appropriate authority) may direct the regulator to do so. (5) Where the appropriate authority must give a screening opinion under these Regulations, the authority must take into account in making that decision— (a) any information provided by the applicant in accordance with paragraph 1(1); (b) the results of any relevant EU environmental assessment which are reasonably available to the authority; and (c) such of the selection criteria set out in Schedule 1 as are relevant to the project.