Part 1: Licensing of Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage Chapter 1: Licensing of Activities Section 30: Duty to carry out impact assessment
Section 30 applies where the economic regulator is minded to pursue a proposal which could have a significant impact on licence holders or persons engaged in activities associated with the licensable activities or on the general public or the environment. Prior to implementing any such proposal, the economic regulator is required to carry out and publish an assessment of the likely impact of implementing the proposal or confirm that it considers it unnecessary to carry out such an assessment, with the reasons for this conclusion.
	If the economic regulator publishes an impact assessment for a proposal, section 30 requires that it publishes the assessment in an appropriate manner to provide an opportunity for those who are likely to be significantly affected by the proposal’s implementation to make representations. The economic regulator is required to explain how representations must be made alongside the assessment and allow an appropriate opportunity for representations to be made prior to implementation.
	A list of the assessments carried out during the relevant financial year and a summary of the decisions taken during that year which relate to proposals which were assessed must be published in every annual report published pursuant to section 41.