The Highways (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1999
These Regulations implement for England and Wales Council Directive 97/11/EC of the 3rd March 1997 (OJ No. L73, 14.3.97, p.5) on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, in respect of those proposals to construct new highways and to improve highways to which the Directive applies in so far as those proposals are those of the Secretary of State. The Directive amends Council Directive 85/337/EEC of the 27th June (OJ No. L17, 5.7.85, p.40) on the same subject.