S.L. 549.39 ст. 2Definitions.

For the purpose of these regulations and unless the context otherwise requires:

"applicant" means any natural or legal person requesting environmental information;

"the competent authority" means the Environment and Resources Authority and such other body or person as the Minister may by order in the Gazette appoint and different bodies or persons may be designated as a competent authority for different provisions and different purposes of these regulations;

"environmental information" means any information in written, visual, aural, electronic or any other material form on:

(a) the state of the elements of the environment, such as air and atmosphere, water, soil, land, landscape and natural sites including wetlands, coastal and marine areas, biological diversity and its components, including genetically modified organisms, and the interaction among these elements;

(b) factors, such as substances, energy, noise, radiation or waste, including radioactive waste, emissions, discharges and other releases into the environment, affecting or likely to affect the elements of the environment referred to in paragraph (a);

(c) measures (including administrative measures), such as policies, legislation, plans, programmes, environmental agreements, and activities affecting or likely to affect the elements and factors referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) as well as measures or activities designed to protect those elements;

(d) reports on the implementation of environmental legislation;

(e) cost-benefit and other economic analyses and assumptions used within the framework of the measures and activities referred to in paragraph (c); and

(f) the state of human health and safety, including the contamination of the food chain, where relevant, conditions of human life, cultural sites and built structures, inasmuch as they are or may be affected by the state of the elements of the environment referred to in paragraph (a) or, through those elements, by any of the matters referred to in paragraphs (b) and (c);

"Information and Data Protection Commissioner" means the official appointed in terms of article 11 of the Data Protection Act;

"information held by a public authority" means environmental information in possession of such public authority which has been produced or received by that authority; "information held for a public authority" means environmental information which is physically held by a natural or legal person on behalf of a public authority; "the Minister" means the Minister responsible for the environment; "the public" means one or more natural or legal persons, and, in accordance with national legislation or practice, their associations, organisations or groups;

"public authority" means:

(a) government or other public administration, including public advisory bodies, at national, regional or local level;

(b) any natural or legal person performing public administrative functions under national law, including specific duties, activities or services in relation to the environment; and

(c) any natural or legal person having public responsibilities or functions, or providing public services, relating to the environment under the control of a body or person falling within paragraphs (a) or (b): Provided that this definition shall not include bodies or institutions when acting in a judicial or legislative capacity.