33. Where an application for a licence under section 29 is subject to a retrospective EIA, the Agency shall—

(a) within 2 weeks after the date of receipt of a retrospective EIAR, give notice to the planning authority in whose functional area the abstraction is situate, that it has received a retrospective EIAR in respect of the application for a licence and request the planning authority, within 4 weeks after receipt of the notice, to furnish to the Agency any observations that the planning authority has in relation to the retrospective EIAR and the application for a licence,

(b) consider any observations made to the Agency by the planning authority following a request under paragraph (a) before giving notice of its proposed decision under section 35, and

(c) enter into consultations, as the Agency considers appropriate, with the planning authority in relation to any environmental impacts of the abstraction.