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return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">►B</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="title-doc-first">DIRECTIVE 2000/60/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL</p> <p class="title-doc-first">of 23 October 2000</p> <p class="title-doc-last"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="_blanc" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy</a> </p> <p class="title-doc-oj-reference">(OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p.1)</p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="hd-modifiers">Amended by:</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0"> <col width="10%" span="1"/> <col width="55%" span="1"/> <col width="10%" span="1"/> <col width="10%" span="1"/> <col width="15%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" colspan="1"> <p class="norm"> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" colspan="1"> <p class="norm"> </p> </td> <td valign="top" colspan="3" rowspan="1"> <p class="hd-toc-1">Official Journal</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="hd-toc-2"> No</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="hd-toc-3">page</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="hd-toc-3">date</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="arrow"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32001D2455" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32001D2455" shape="rect"> M1</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="title-fam-member-star"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32001D2455" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32001D2455" shape="rect">DECISION No 2455/2001/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 November 2001</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-1"> L 331</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">15.12.2001</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="arrow"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32008L0032" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32008L0032" shape="rect">►M2</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="title-fam-member-star"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32008L0032" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32008L0032" shape="rect">DIRECTIVE 2008/32/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 11 March 2008</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-1"> L 81</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">60</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">20.3.2008</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="arrow"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32008L0105" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32008L0105" shape="rect"> M3</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="title-fam-member-star"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32008L0105" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32008L0105" shape="rect">DIRECTIVE 2008/105/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 December 2008</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-1"> L 348</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">84</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">24.12.2008</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="arrow"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32009L0031" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32009L0031" shape="rect">►M4</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="title-fam-member-star"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32009L0031" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32009L0031" shape="rect">DIRECTIVE 2009/31/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL Text with EEA relevance of 23 April 2009</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-1"> L 140</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">114</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">5.6.2009</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="arrow"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0039" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0039" shape="rect">►M5</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="title-fam-member-star"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0039" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0039" shape="rect">DIRECTIVE 2013/39/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL Text with EEA relevance of 12 August 2013</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-1"> L 226</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">24.8.2013</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="arrow"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0064" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0064" shape="rect">►M6</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="title-fam-member-star"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0064" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0064" shape="rect">COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2013/64/EU of 17 December 2013</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-1"> L 353</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">28.12.2013</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="arrow"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32014L0101" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32014L0101" shape="rect">►M7</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="title-fam-member-star"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32014L0101" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32014L0101" shape="rect">COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2014/101/EU Text with EEA relevance of 30 October 2014</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-1"> L 311</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">32</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-2">31.10.2014</p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="arrow"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="title-doc-first">DIRECTIVE 2000/60/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL</p> <p class="title-doc-first">of 23 October 2000</p> <p class="title-doc-last">establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy</p> <p> <br/> <br/> </p> <div class="preamble"> <p class="norm">THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,</p> <p class="norm">Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 175(1) thereof,</p> <p class="norm">Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (<a href="#E0001" id="src.E0001" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">1</span> </a>),</p> <p class="norm">Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (<a href="#E0002" id="src.E0002" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">2</span> </a>),</p> <p class="norm">Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions (<a href="#E0003" id="src.E0003" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">3</span> </a>),</p> <p class="norm">Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty (<a href="#E0004" id="src.E0004" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">4</span> </a>), and in the light of the joint text approved by the Conciliation Committee on 18 July 2000,</p>Whereas:<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(1)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Water is not a commercial product like any other but, rather, a heritage which must be protected, defended and treated as such.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(2)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The conclusions of the Community Water Policy Ministerial Seminar in Frankfurt in 1988 highlighted the need for Community legislation covering ecological quality. The Council in its resolution of 28 June 1988 (<a href="#E0005" id="src.E0005" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">5</span> </a>) asked the Commission to submit proposals to improve ecological quality in Community surface waters.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(3)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The declaration of the Ministerial Seminar on groundwater held at The Hague in 1991 recognised the need for action to avoid long-term deterioration of freshwater quality and quantity and called for a programme of actions to be implemented by the year 2000 aiming at sustainable management and protection of freshwater resources. In its resolutions of 25 February 1992 (<a href="#E0006" id="src.E0006" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">6</span> </a>), and 20 February 1995 (<a href="#E0007" id="src.E0007" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">7</span> </a>), the Council requested an action programme for groundwater and a revision of Council Directive 80/68/EEC of 17 December 1979 on the protection of groundwater against pollution caused by certain dangerous substances (<a href="#E0008" id="src.E0008" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">8</span> </a>), as part of an overall policy on freshwater protection.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(4)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Waters in the Community are under increasing pressure from the continuous growth in demand for sufficient quantities of good quality water for all purposes. On 10 November 1995, the European Environment Agency in its report ‘Environment in the European Union - 1995’ presented an updated state of the environment report, confirming the need for action to protect Community waters in qualitative as well as in quantitative terms.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(5)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">On 18 December 1995, the Council adopted conclusions requiring, inter alia, the drawing up of a new framework Directive establishing the basic principles of sustainable water policy in the European Union and inviting the Commission to come forward with a proposal.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(6)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">On 21 February 1996 the Commission adopted a communication to the European Parliament and the Council on European Community water policy setting out the principles for a Community water policy.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(7)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">On 9 September 1996 the Commission presented a proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on an action programme for integrated protection and management of groundwater (<a href="#E0009" id="src.E0009" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">9</span> </a>). In that proposal the Commission pointed to the need to establish procedures for the regulation of abstraction of freshwater and for the monitoring of freshwater quality and quantity.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(8)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">On 29 May 1995 the Commission adopted a communication to the European Parliament and the Council on the wise use and conservation of wetlands, which recognised the important functions they perform for the protection of water resources.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(9)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">It is necessary to develop an integrated Community policy on water.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(10)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The Council on 25 June 1996, the Committee of the Regions on 19 September 1996, the Economic and Social Committee on 26 September 1996, and the European Parliament on 23 October 1996 all requested the Commission to come forward with a proposal for a Council Directive establishing a framework for a European water policy.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(11)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">As set out in Article 174 of the Treaty, the Community policy on the environment is to contribute to pursuit of the objectives of preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the environment, in prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources, and to be based on the precautionary principle and on the principles that preventive action should be taken, environmental damage should, as a priority, be rectified at source and that the polluter should pay.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(12)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Pursuant to Article 174 of the Treaty, in preparing its policy on the environment, the Community is to take account of available scientific and technical data, environmental conditions in the various regions of the Community, and the economic and social development of the Community as a whole and the balanced development of its regions as well as the potential benefits and costs of action or lack of action.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(13)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">There are diverse conditions and needs in the Community which require different specific solutions. This diversity should be taken into account in the planning and execution of measures to ensure protection and sustainable use of water in the framework of the river basin. Decisions should be taken as close as possible to the locations where water is affected or used. Priority should be given to action within the responsibility of Member States through the drawing up of programmes of measures adjusted to regional and local conditions.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(14)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The success of this Directive relies on close cooperation and coherent action at Community, Member State and local level as well as on information, consultation and involvement of the public, including users.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(15)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The supply of water is a service of general interest as defined in the Commission communication on services of general interest in Europe (<a href="#E0010" id="src.E0010" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">10</span> </a>).</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(16)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Further integration of protection and sustainable management of water into other Community policy areas such as energy, transport, agriculture, fisheries, regional policy and tourism is necessary. This Directive should provide a basis for a continued dialogue and for the development of strategies towards a further integration of policy areas. This Directive can also make an important contribution to other areas of cooperation between Member States, <span class="italics">inter alia</span>, the European spatial development perspective (ESDP).</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(17)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">An effective and coherent water policy must take account of the vulnerability of aquatic ecosystems located near the coast and estuaries or in gulfs or relatively closed seas, as their equilibrium is strongly influenced by the quality of inland waters flowing into them. Protection of water status within river basins will provide economic benefits by contributing towards the protection of fish populations, including coastal fish populations.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(18)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Community water policy requires a transparent, effective and coherent legislative framework. The Community should provide common principles and the overall framework for action. This Directive should provide for such a framework and coordinate and integrate, and, in a longer perspective, further develop the overall principles and structures for protection and sustainable use of water in the Community in accordance with the principles of subsidiarity.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(19)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">This Directive aims at maintaining and improving the aquatic environment in the Community. This purpose is primarily concerned with the quality of the waters concerned. Control of quantity is an ancillary element in securing good water quality and therefore measures on quantity, serving the objective of ensuring good quality, should also be established.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(20)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The quantitative status of a body of groundwater may have an impact on the ecological quality of surface waters and terrestrial ecosystems associated with that groundwater body.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(21)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The Community and Member States are party to various international agreements containing important obligations on the protection of marine waters from pollution, in particular the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, signed in Helsinki on 9 April 1992 and approved by Council Decision 94/157/EC (<a href="#E0011" id="src.E0011" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">11</span> </a>), the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, signed in Paris on 22 September 1992 and approved by Council Decision 98/249/EC (<a href="#E0012" id="src.E0012" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">12</span> </a>), and the Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution, signed in Barcelona on 16 February 1976 and approved by Council Decision 77/585/EEC (<a href="#E0013" id="src.E0013" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">13</span> </a>), and its Protocol for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution from Land-Based Sources, signed in Athens on 17 May 1980 and approved by Council Decision 83/101/EEC (<a href="#E0014" id="src.E0014" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">14</span> </a>). This Directive is to make a contribution towards enabling the Community and Member States to meet those obligations.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(22)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">This Directive is to contribute to the progressive reduction of emissions of hazardous substances to water.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(23)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Common principles are needed in order to coordinate Member States' efforts to improve the protection of Community waters in terms of quantity and quality, to promote sustainable water use, to contribute to the control of transboundary water problems, to protect aquatic ecosystems, and terrestrial ecosystems and wetlands directly depending on them, and to safeguard and develop the potential uses of Community waters.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(24)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Good water quality will contribute to securing the drinking water supply for the population.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(25)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Common definitions of the status of water in terms of quality and, where relevant for the purpose of the environmental protection, quantity should be established. Environmental objectives should be set to ensure that good status of surface water and groundwater is achieved throughout the Community and that deterioration in the status of waters is prevented at Community level.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(26)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Member States should aim to achieve the objective of at least good water status by defining and implementing the necessary measures within integrated programmes of measures, taking into account existing Community requirements. Where good water status already exists, it should be maintained. For groundwater, in addition to the requirements of good status, any significant and sustained upward trend in the concentration of any pollutant should be identified and reversed.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(27)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The ultimate aim of this Directive is to achieve the elimination of priority hazardous substances and contribute to achieving concentrations in the marine environment near background values for naturally occurring substances.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(28)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Surface waters and groundwaters are in principle renewable natural resources; in particular, the task of ensuring good status of groundwater requires early action and stable long-term planning of protective measures, owing to the natural time lag in its formation and renewal. Such time lag for improvement should be taken into account in timetables when establishing measures for the achievement of good status of groundwater and reversing any significant and sustained upward trend in the concentration of any pollutant in groundwater.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(29)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">In aiming to achieve the objectives set out in this Directive, and in establishing a programme of measures to that end, Member States may phase implementation of the programme of measures in order to spread the costs of implementation.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(30)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">In order to ensure a full and consistent implementation of this Directive any extensions of timescale should be made on the basis of appropriate, evident and transparent criteria and be justified by the Member States in the river basin management plans.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(31)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">In cases where a body of water is so affected by human activity or its natural condition is such that it may be unfeasible or unreasonably expensive to achieve good status, less stringent environmental objectives may be set on the basis of appropriate, evident and transparent criteria, and all practicable steps should be taken to prevent any further deterioration of the status of waters.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(32)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">There may be grounds for exemptions from the requirement to prevent further deterioration or to achieve good status under specific conditions, if the failure is the result of unforeseen or exceptional circumstances, in particular floods and droughts, or, for reasons of overriding public interest, of new modifications to the physical characteristics of a surface water body or alterations to the level of bodies of groundwater, provided that all practicable steps are taken to mitigate the adverse impact on the status of the body of water.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(33)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The objective of achieving good water status should be pursued for each river basin, so that measures in respect of surface water and groundwaters belonging to the same ecological, hydrological and hydrogeological system are coordinated.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(34)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">For the purposes of environmental protection there is a need for a greater integration of qualitative and quantitative aspects of both surface waters and groundwaters, taking into account the natural flow conditions of water within the hydrological cycle.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(35)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Within a river basin where use of water may have transboundary effects, the requirements for the achievement of the environmental objectives established under this Directive, and in particular all programmes of measures, should be coordinated for the whole of the river basin district. For river basins extending beyond the boundaries of the Community, Member States should endeavour to ensure the appropriate coordination with the relevant non-member States. This Directive is to contribute to the implementation of Community obligations under international conventions on water protection and management, notably the United Nations Convention on the protection and use of transboundary water courses and international lakes, approved by Council Decision 95/308/EC (<a href="#E0015" id="src.E0015" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">15</span> </a>) and any succeeding agreements on its application.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(36)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">It is necessary to undertake analyses of the characteristics of a river basin and the impacts of human activity as well as an economic analysis of water use. The development in water status should be monitored by Member States on a systematic and comparable basis throughout the Community. This information is necessary in order to provide a sound basis for Member States to develop programmes of measures aimed at achieving the objectives established under this Directive.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(37)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Member States should identify waters used for the abstraction of drinking water and ensure compliance with Council Directive 80/778/EEC of 15 July 1980 relating to the quality of water intended for human consumption (<a href="#E0016" id="src.E0016" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">16</span> </a>).</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(38)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The use of economic instruments by Member States may be appropriate as part of a programme of measures. The principle of recovery of the costs of water services, including environmental and resource costs associated with damage or negative impact on the aquatic environment should be taken into account in accordance with, in particular, the polluter-pays principle. An economic analysis of water services based on long-term forecasts of supply and demand for water in the river basin district will be necessary for this purpose.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(39)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">There is a need to prevent or reduce the impact of incidents in which water is accidentally polluted. Measures with the aim of doing so should be included in the programme of measures.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(40)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">With regard to pollution prevention and control, Community water policy should be based on a combined approach using control of pollution at source through the setting of emission limit values and of environmental quality standards.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(41)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">For water quantity, overall principles should be laid down for control on abstraction and impoundment in order to ensure the environmental sustainability of the affected water systems.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(42)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Common environmental quality standards and emission limit values for certain groups or families of pollutants should be laid down as minimum requirements in Community legislation. Provisions for the adoption of such standards at Community level should be ensured.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(43)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Pollution through the discharge, emission or loss of priority hazardous substances must cease or be phased out. The European Parliament and the Council should, on a proposal from the Commission, agree on the substances to be considered for action as a priority and on specific measures to be taken against pollution of water by those substances, taking into account all significant sources and identifying the cost-effective and proportionate level and combination of controls.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(44)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">In identifying priority hazardous substances, account should be taken of the precautionary principle, relying in particular on the determination of any potentially adverse effects of the product and on a scientific assessment of the risk.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(45)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Member States should adopt measures to eliminate pollution of surface water by the priority substances and progressively to reduce pollution by other substances which would otherwise prevent Member States from achieving the objectives for the bodies of surface water.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(46)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">To ensure the participation of the general public including users of water in the establishment and updating of river basin management plans, it is necessary to provide proper information of planned measures and to report on progress with their implementation with a view to the involvement of the general public before final decisions on the necessary measures are adopted.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(47)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">This Directive should provide mechanisms to address obstacles to progress in improving water status when these fall outside the scope of Community water legislation, with a view to developing appropriate Community strategies for overcoming them.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(48)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The Commission should present annually an updated plan for any initiatives which it intends to propose for the water sector.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(49)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Technical specifications should be laid down to ensure a coherent approach in the Community as part of this Directive. Criteria for evaluation of water status are an important step forward. Adaptation of certain technical elements to technical development and the standardisation of monitoring, sampling and analysis methods should be adopted by committee procedure. To promote a thorough understanding and consistent application of the criteria for characterisation of the river basin districts and evaluation of water status, the Commission may adopt guidelines on the application of these criteria.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(50)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The measures necessary for the implementation of this Directive should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission (<a href="#E0017" id="src.E0017" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">17</span> </a>).</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(51)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The implementation of this Directive is to achieve a level of protection of waters at least equivalent to that provided in certain earlier acts, which should therefore be repealed once the relevant provisions of this Directive have been fully implemented.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(52)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The provisions of this Directive take over the framework for control of pollution by dangerous substances established under Directive 76/464/EEC (<a href="#E0018" id="src.E0018" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">18</span> </a>). That Directive should therefore be repealed once the relevant provisions of this Directive have been fully implemented.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">(53)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">Full implementation and enforcement of existing environmental legislation for the protection of waters should be ensured. It is necessary to ensure the proper application of the provisions implementing this Directive throughout the Community by appropriate penalties provided for in Member States' legislation. Such penalties should be effective, proportionate and dissuasive,</p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="norm">HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:</p> </div> <p> <br/> <br/> </p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 1</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Purpose</p> <p class="norm">The purpose of this Directive is to establish a framework for the protection of inland surface waters, transitional waters, coastal waters and groundwater which:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>prevents further deterioration and protects and enhances the status of aquatic ecosystems and, with regard to their water needs, terrestrial ecosystems and wetlands directly depending on the aquatic ecosystems;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>promotes sustainable water use based on a long-term protection of available water resources;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>aims at enhanced protection and improvement of the aquatic environment, <span class="italics">inter alia</span>, through specific measures for the progressive reduction of discharges, emissions and losses of priority substances and the cessation or phasing-out of discharges, emissions and losses of the priority hazardous substances;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(d)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>ensures the progressive reduction of pollution of groundwater and prevents its further pollution, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(e)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>contributes to mitigating the effects of floods and droughts</p> </div> <p class="norm">and thereby contributes to:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the provision of the sufficient supply of good quality surface water and groundwater as needed for sustainable, balanced and equitable water use,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>a significant reduction in pollution of groundwater,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the protection of territorial and marine waters, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>achieving the objectives of relevant international agreements, including those which aim to prevent and eliminate pollution of the marine environment, by Community action under Article 16(3) to cease or phase out discharges, emissions and losses of priority hazardous substances, with the ultimate aim of achieving concentrations in the marine environment near background values for naturally occurring substances and close to zero for man-made synthetic substances.</p> </div> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 2</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Definitions</p> <p class="norm">For the purposes of this Directive the following definitions shall apply:</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Surface water’means inland waters, except groundwater; transitional waters and coastal waters, except in respect of chemical status for which it shall also include territorial waters.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Groundwater’means all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Inland water’means all standing or flowing water on the surface of the land, and all groundwater on the landward side of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘River’means a body of inland water flowing for the most part on the surface of the land but which may flow underground for part of its course.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">5.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Lake’means a body of standing inland surface water.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">6.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Transitional waters’are bodies of surface water in the vicinity of river mouths which are partly saline in character as a result of their proximity to coastal waters but which are substantially influenced by freshwater flows.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">7.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Coastal water’means surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">8.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Artificial water body’means a body of surface water created by human activity.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">9.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Heavily modified water body’means a body of surface water which as a result of physical alterations by human activity is substantially changed in character, as designated by the Member State in accordance with the provisions of Annex II.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">10.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Body of surface water’means a discrete and significant element of surface water such as a lake, a reservoir, a stream, river or canal, part of a stream, river or canal, a transitional water or a stretch of coastal water.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">11.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Aquifer’means a subsurface layer or layers of rock or other geological strata of sufficient porosity and permeability to allow either a significant flow of groundwater or the abstraction of significant quantities of groundwater.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">12.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Body of groundwater’means a distinct volume of groundwater within an aquifer or aquifers.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">13.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘River basin’means the area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a sequence of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes into the sea at a single river mouth, estuary or delta.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">14.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Sub-basin’means the area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a series of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes to a particular point in a water course (normally a lake or a river confluence).</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">15.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘River basin district’means the area of land and sea, made up of one or more neighbouring river basins together with their associated groundwaters and coastal waters, which is identified under Article 3(1) as the main unit for management of river basins.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">16.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Competent Authority’means an authority or authorities identified under Article 3(2) or 3(3).</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">17.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Surface water status’is the general expression of the status of a body of surface water, determined by the poorer of its ecological status and its chemical status.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">18.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Good surface water status’means the status achieved by a surface water body when both its ecological status and its chemical status are at least ‘good’.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">19.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Groundwater status’is the general expression of the status of a body of groundwater, determined by the poorer of its quantitative status and its chemical status.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">20.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Good groundwater status’means the status achieved by a groundwater body when both its quantitative status and its chemical status are at least ‘good’.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">21.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Ecological status’is an expression of the quality of the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems associated with surface waters, classified in accordance with Annex V.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">22.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Good ecological status’is the status of a body of surface water, so classified in accordance with Annex V.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">23.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Good ecological potential’is the status of a heavily modified or an artificial body of water, so classified in accordance with the relevant provisions of Annex V.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">24.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Good surface water chemical status’means the chemical status required to meet the environmental objectives for surface waters established in Article 4(1)(a), that is the chemical status achieved by a body of surface water in which concentrations of pollutants do not exceed the environmental quality standards established in Annex IX and under Article 16(7), and under other relevant Community legislation setting environmental quality standards at Community level.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">25.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Good groundwater chemical status’is the chemical status of a body of groundwater, which meets all the conditions set out in table 2.3.2 of Annex V.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">26.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Quantitative status’is an expression of the degree to which a body of groundwater is affected by direct and indirect abstractions.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">27.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Available groundwater resource’means the long-term annual average rate of overall recharge of the body of groundwater less the long-term annual rate of flow required to achieve the ecological quality objectives for associated surface waters specified under Article 4, to avoid any significant diminution in the ecological status of such waters and to avoid any significant damage to associated terrestrial ecosystems.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">28.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Good quantitative status’is the status defined in table 2.1.2 of Annex V.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">29.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Hazardous substances’means substances or groups of substances that are toxic, persistent and liable to bio-accumulate, and other substances or groups of substances which give rise to an equivalent level of concern.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">30.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Priority substances’means substances identified in accordance with Article 16(2) and listed in Annex X. Among these substances there are ‘priority hazardous substances’ which means substances identified in accordance with Article 16(3) and (6) for which measures have to be taken in accordance with Article 16(1) and (8).</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">31.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Pollutant’means any substance liable to cause pollution, in particular those listed in Annex VIII.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">32.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Direct discharge to groundwater’means discharge of pollutants into groundwater without percolation throughout the soil or subsoil.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">33.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Pollution’means the direct or indirect introduction, as a result of human activity, of substances or heat into the air, water or land which may be harmful to human health or the quality of aquatic ecosystems or terrestrial ecosystems directly depending on aquatic ecosystems, which result in damage to material property, or which impair or interfere with amenities and other legitimate uses of the environment.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">34.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Environmental objectives’means the objectives set out in Article 4.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">35.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Environmental quality standard’means the concentration of a particular pollutant or group of pollutants in water, sediment or biota which should not be exceeded in order to protect human health and the environment.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">36.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Combined approach’means the control of discharges and emissions into surface waters according to the approach set out in Article 10.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">37.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Water intended for human consumption’has the same meaning as under Directive 80/778/EEC, as amended by Directive 98/83/EC.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">38.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">‘Water services’<p class="norm">means all services which provide, for households, public institutions or any economic activity:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>abstraction, impoundment, storage, treatment and distribution of surface water or groundwater,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>waste-water collection and treatment facilities which subsequently discharge into surface water.</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">39.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">‘Water use’<p class="norm">means water services together with any other activity identified under Article 5 and Annex II having a significant impact on the status of water.</p> <p class="norm">This concept applies for the purposes of Article 1 and of the economic analysis carried out according to Article 5 and Annex III, point (b).</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">40.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">‘Emission limit values’<p class="norm">means the mass, expressed in terms of certain specific parameters, concentration and/or level of an emission, which may not be exceeded during any one or more periods of time. Emission limit values may also be laid down for certain groups, families or categories of substances, in particular for those identified under Article 16.</p> <p class="norm">The emission limit values for substances shall normally apply at the point where the emissions leave the installation, dilution being disregarded when determining them. With regard to indirect releases into water, the effect of a waste-water treatment plant may be taken into account when determining the emission limit values of the installations involved, provided that an equivalent level is guaranteed for protection of the environment as a whole and provided that this does not lead to higher levels of pollution in the environment.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-term">41.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="dlist-definition">‘Emission controls’are controls requiring a specific emission limitation, for instance an emission limit value, or otherwise specifying limits or conditions on the effects, nature or other characteristics of an emission or operating conditions which affect emissions. Use of the term ‘emission control’ in this Directive in respect of the provisions of any other Directive shall not be held as reinterpreting those provisions in any respect.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 3</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Coordination of administrative arrangements within river basin districts</p> <p class="norm">1. Member States shall identify the individual river basins lying within their national territory and, for the purposes of this Directive, shall assign them to individual river basin districts. Small river basins may be combined with larger river basins or joined with neighbouring small basins to form individual river basin districts where appropriate. Where groundwaters do not fully follow a particular river basin, they shall be identified and assigned to the nearest or most appropriate river basin district. Coastal waters shall be identified and assigned to the nearest or most appropriate river basin district or districts.</p> <p class="norm">2. Member States shall ensure the appropriate administrative arrangements, including the identification of the appropriate competent authority, for the application of the rules of this Directive within each river basin district lying within their territory.</p> <p class="norm">3. Member States shall ensure that a river basin covering the territory of more than one Member State is assigned to an international river basin district. At the request of the Member States involved, the Commission shall act to facilitate the assigning to such international river basin districts.</p> <p class="norm">Each Member State shall ensure the appropriate administrative arrangements, including the identification of the appropriate competent authority, for the application of the rules of this Directive within the portion of any international river basin district lying within its territory.</p> <p class="norm">4. Member States shall ensure that the requirements of this Directive for the achievement of the environmental objectives established under Article 4, and in particular all programmes of measures are coordinated for the whole of the river basin district. For international river basin districts the Member States concerned shall together ensure this coordination and may, for this purpose, use existing structures stemming from international agreements. At the request of the Member States involved, the Commission shall act to facilitate the establishment of the programmes of measures.</p> <p class="norm">5. Where a river basin district extends beyond the territory of the Community, the Member State or Member States concerned shall endeavour to establish appropriate coordination with the relevant non-Member States, with the aim of achieving the objectives of this Directive throughout the river basin district. Member States shall ensure the application of the rules of this Directive within their territory.</p> <p class="norm">6. Member States may identify an existing national or international body as competent authority for the purposes of this Directive.</p> <p class="norm">7. Member States shall identify the competent authority by the date mentioned in Article 24.</p> <p class="norm">8. Member States shall provide the Commission with a list of their competent authorities and of the competent authorities of all the international bodies in which they participate at the latest six months after the date mentioned in Article 24. For each competent authority the information set out in Annex I shall be provided.</p> <p class="norm">9. Member States shall inform the Commission of any changes to the information provided according to paragraph 8 within three months of the change coming into effect.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 4</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Environmental objectives</p> <p class="norm">1. In making operational the programmes of measures specified in the river basin management plans:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>for surface waters</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Member States shall implement the necessary measures to prevent deterioration of the status of all bodies of surface water, subject to the application of paragraphs 6 and 7 and without prejudice to paragraph 8;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>Member States shall protect, enhance and restore all bodies of surface water, subject to the application of subparagraph (iii) for artificial and heavily modified bodies of water, with the aim of achieving good surface water status at the latest 15 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive, in accordance with the provisions laid down in Annex V, subject to the application of extensions determined in accordance with paragraph 4 and to the application of paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 without prejudice to paragraph 8;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>Member States shall protect and enhance all artificial and heavily modified bodies of water, with the aim of achieving good ecological potential and good surface water chemical status at the latest 15 years from the date of entry into force of this Directive, in accordance with the provisions laid down in Annex V, subject to the application of extensions determined in accordance with paragraph 4 and to the application of paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 without prejudice to paragraph 8;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Member States shall implement the necessary measures in accordance with Article 16(1) and (8), with the aim of progressively reducing pollution from priority substances and ceasing or phasing out emissions, discharges and losses of priority hazardous substances</p> </div> <p class="list">without prejudice to the relevant international agreements referred to in Article 1 for the parties concerned;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>for groundwater</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Member States shall implement the measures necessary to prevent or limit the input of pollutants into groundwater and to prevent the deterioration of the status of all bodies of groundwater, subject to the application of paragraphs 6 and 7 and without prejudice to paragraph 8 of this Article and subject to the application of Article 11(3)(j);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>Member States shall protect, enhance and restore all bodies of groundwater, ensure a balance between abstraction and recharge of groundwater, with the aim of achieving good groundwater status at the latest 15 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive, in accordance with the provisions laid down in Annex V, subject to the application of extensions determined in accordance with paragraph 4 and to the application of paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 without prejudice to paragraph 8 of this Article and subject to the application of Article 11(3)(j);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>Member States shall implement the measures necessary to reverse any significant and sustained upward trend in the concentration of any pollutant resulting from the impact of human activity in order progressively to reduce pollution of groundwater.</p> <p class="list">Measures to achieve trend reversal shall be implemented in accordance with paragraphs 2, 4 and 5 of Article 17, taking into account the applicable standards set out in relevant Community legislation, subject to the application of paragraphs 6 and 7 and without prejudice to paragraph 8;</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>for protected areas</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Member States shall achieve compliance with any standards and objectives at the latest 15 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive, unless otherwise specified in the Community legislation under which the individual protected areas have been established.</p> </div> </div> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0064" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0064: INSERTED" shape="rect">▼M6</a> </p> <p class="norm">As regards Mayotte as an outermost region within the meaning of Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter ‘Mayotte’), the time limit referred to in points (a)(ii), (a)(iii), (b)(ii) and (c) shall be 22 December 2021.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="norm">2. Where more than one of the objectives under paragraph 1 relates to a given body of water, the most stringent shall apply.</p> <p class="norm">3. Member States may designate a body of surface water as artificial or heavily modified, when:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the changes to the hydromorphological characteristics of that body which would be necessary for achieving good ecological status would have significant adverse effects on:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>the wider environment;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>navigation, including port facilities, or recreation;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>activities for the purposes of which water is stored, such as drinking-water supply, power generation or irrigation;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>water regulation, flood protection, land drainage, or</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(v)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>other equally important sustainable human development activities;</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the beneficial objectives served by the artificial or modified characteristics of the water body cannot, for reasons of technical feasibility or disproportionate costs, reasonably be achieved by other means, which are a significantly better environmental option.</p> <p class="list">Such designation and the reasons for it shall be specifically mentioned in the river basin management plans required under Article 13 and reviewed every six years.</p> </div> <p class="norm">4. <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0064" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0064: REPLACED" shape="rect"> <span class="boldface">►M6</span> </a> The time limits laid down in paragraph 1 may be extended for the purposes of phased achievement of the objectives for bodies of water, provided that no further deterioration occurs in the status of the affected body of water when all the following conditions are met:<span class="boldface"> ◄ </span> </p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>Member States determine that all necessary improvements in the status of bodies of water cannot reasonably be achieved within the timescales set out in that paragraph for at least one of the following reasons:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>the scale of improvements required can only be achieved in phases exceeding the timescale, for reasons of technical feasibility;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>completing the improvements within the timescale would be disproportionately expensive;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>natural conditions do not allow timely improvement in the status of the body of water.</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>Extension of the deadline, and the reasons for it, are specifically set out and explained in the river basin management plan required under Article 13.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>Extensions shall be limited to a maximum of two further updates of the river basin management plan except in cases where the natural conditions are such that the objectives cannot be achieved within this period.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(d)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>A summary of the measures required under Article 11 which are envisaged as necessary to bring the bodies of water progressively to the required status by the extended deadline, the reasons for any significant delay in making these measures operational, and the expected timetable for their implementation are set out in the river basin management plan. A review of the implementation of these measures and a summary of any additional measures shall be included in updates of the river basin management plan.</p> </div> <p class="norm">5. Member States may aim to achieve less stringent environmental objectives than those required under paragraph 1 for specific bodies of water when they are so affected by human activity, as determined in accordance with Article 5(1), or their natural condition is such that the achievement of these objectives would be infeasible or disproportionately expensive, and all the following conditions are met:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the environmental and socioeconomic needs served by such human activity cannot be achieved by other means, which are a significantly better environmental option not entailing disproportionate costs;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>Member States ensure,</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for surface water, the highest ecological and chemical status possible is achieved, given impacts that could not reasonably have been avoided due to the nature of the human activity or pollution,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for groundwater, the least possible changes to good groundwater status, given impacts that could not reasonably have been avoided due to the nature of the human activity or pollution;</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>no further deterioration occurs in the status of the affected body of water;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(d)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the establishment of less stringent environmental objectives, and the reasons for it, are specifically mentioned in the river basin management plan required under Article 13 and those objectives are reviewed every six years.</p> </div> <p class="norm">6. Temporary deterioration in the status of bodies of water shall not be in breach of the requirements of this Directive if this is the result of circumstances of natural cause or <span class="italics">force majeure</span> which are exceptional or could not reasonably have been foreseen, in particular extreme floods and prolonged droughts, or the result of circumstances due to accidents which could not reasonably have been foreseen, when all of the following conditions have been met:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>all practicable steps are taken to prevent further deterioration in status and in order not to compromise the achievement of the objectives of this Directive in other bodies of water not affected by those circumstances;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the conditions under which circumstances that are exceptional or that could not reasonably have been foreseen may be declared, including the adoption of the appropriate indicators, are stated in the river basin management plan;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the measures to be taken under such exceptional circumstances are included in the programme of measures and will not compromise the recovery of the quality of the body of water once the circumstances are over;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(d)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the effects of the circumstances that are exceptional or that could not reasonably have been foreseen are reviewed annually and, subject to the reasons set out in paragraph 4(a), all practicable measures are taken with the aim of restoring the body of water to its status prior to the effects of those circumstances as soon as reasonably practicable, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(e)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>a summary of the effects of the circumstances and of such measures taken or to be taken in accordance with paragraphs (a) and (d) are included in the next update of the river basin management plan.</p> </div> <p class="norm">7. Member States will not be in breach of this Directive when:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>failure to achieve good groundwater status, good ecological status or, where relevant, good ecological potential or to prevent deterioration in the status of a body of surface water or groundwater is the result of new modifications to the physical characteristics of a surface water body or alterations to the level of bodies of groundwater, or</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>failure to prevent deterioration from high status to good status of a body of surface water is the result of new sustainable human development activities</p> </div> <p class="norm">and all the following conditions are met:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>all practicable steps are taken to mitigate the adverse impact on the status of the body of water;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the reasons for those modifications or alterations are specifically set out and explained in the river basin management plan required under Article 13 and the objectives are reviewed every six years;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the reasons for those modifications or alterations are of overriding public interest and/or the benefits to the environment and to society of achieving the objectives set out in paragraph 1 are outweighed by the benefits of the new modifications or alterations to human health, to the maintenance of human safety or to sustainable development, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(d)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the beneficial objectives served by those modifications or alterations of the water body cannot for reasons of technical feasibility or disproportionate cost be achieved by other means, which are a significantly better environmental option.</p> </div> <p class="norm">8. When applying paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, a Member State shall ensure that the application does not permanently exclude or compromise the achievement of the objectives of this Directive in other bodies of water within the same river basin district and is consistent with the implementation of other Community environmental legislation.</p> <p class="norm">9. Steps must be taken to ensure that the application of the new provisions, including the application of paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, guarantees at least the same level of protection as the existing Community legislation.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 5</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Characteristics of the river basin district, review of the environmental impact of human activity and economic analysis of water use</p> <p class="norm">1. Each Member State shall ensure that for each river basin district or for the portion of an international river basin district falling within its territory:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>an analysis of its characteristics,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>a review of the impact of human activity on the status of surface waters and on groundwater, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>an economic analysis of water use</p> </div> <p class="norm">is undertaken according to the technical specifications set out in Annexes II and III and that it is completed at the latest four years after the date of entry into force of this Directive.</p> <p class="norm">2. The analyses and reviews mentioned under paragraph 1 shall be reviewed, and if necessary updated at the latest 13 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive and every six years thereafter.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 6</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Register of protected areas</p> <p class="norm">1. Member States shall ensure the establishment of a register or registers of all areas lying within each river basin district which have been designated as requiring special protection under specific Community legislation for the protection of their surface water and groundwater or for the conservation of habitats and species directly depending on water. They shall ensure that the register is completed at the latest four years after the date of entry into force of this Directive.</p> <p class="norm">2. The register or registers shall include all bodies of water identified under Article 7(1) and all protected areas covered by Annex IV.</p> <p class="norm">3. For each river basin district, the register or registers of protected areas shall be kept under review and up to date.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 7</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Waters used for the abstraction of drinking water</p> <p class="norm">1. Member States shall identify, within each river basin district:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>all bodies of water used for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption providing more than 10 m<span class="superscript">3</span> a day as an average or serving more than 50 persons, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>those bodies of water intended for such future use.</p> </div> <p class="norm">Member States shall monitor, in accordance with Annex V, those bodies of water which according to Annex V, provide more than 100 m<span class="superscript">3</span> a day as an average.</p> <p class="norm">2. For each body of water identified under paragraph 1, in addition to meeting the objectives of Article 4 in accordance with the requirements of this Directive, for surface water bodies including the quality standards established at Community level under Article 16, Member States shall ensure that under the water treatment regime applied, and in accordance with Community legislation, the resulting water will meet the requirements of Directive 80/778/EEC as amended by Directive 98/83/EC.</p> <p class="norm">3. Member States shall ensure the necessary protection for the bodies of water identified with the aim of avoiding deterioration in their quality in order to reduce the level of purification treatment required in the production of drinking water. Member States may establish safeguard zones for those bodies of water.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 8</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Monitoring of surface water status, groundwater status and protected areas</p> <p class="norm">1. Member States shall ensure the establishment of programmes for the monitoring of water status in order to establish a coherent and comprehensive overview of water status within each river basin district:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for surface waters such programmes shall cover:</p>—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>the volume and level or rate of flow to the extent relevant for ecological and chemical status and ecological potential, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>the ecological and chemical status and ecological potential;</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for groundwaters such programmes shall cover monitoring of the chemical and quantitative status,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for protected areas the above programmes shall be supplemented by those specifications contained in Community legislation under which the individual protected areas have been established.</p> </div> <p class="norm">2. These programmes shall be operational at the latest six years after the date of entry into force of this Directive unless otherwise specified in the legislation concerned. Such monitoring shall be in accordance with the requirements of Annex V.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32008L0032" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32008L0032: REPLACED" shape="rect">▼M2</a> </p> <p class="norm">3. Technical specifications and standardised methods for analysis and monitoring of water status shall be laid down. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 21(3).</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 9</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Recovery of costs for water services</p> <p class="norm">1. Member States shall take account of the principle of recovery of the costs of water services, including environmental and resource costs, having regard to the economic analysis conducted according to Annex III, and in accordance in particular with the polluter pays principle.</p> <p class="norm">Member States shall ensure by 2010</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>that water-pricing policies provide adequate incentives for users to use water resources efficiently, and thereby contribute to the environmental objectives of this Directive,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>an adequate contribution of the different water uses, disaggregated into at least industry, households and agriculture, to the recovery of the costs of water services, based on the economic analysis conducted according to Annex III and taking account of the polluter pays principle.</p> </div> <p class="norm">Member States may in so doing have regard to the social, environmental and economic effects of the recovery as well as the geographic and climatic conditions of the region or regions affected.</p> <p class="norm">2. Member States shall report in the river basin management plans on the planned steps towards implementing paragraph 1 which will contribute to achieving the environmental objectives of this Directive and on the contribution made by the various water uses to the recovery of the costs of water services.</p> <p class="norm">3. Nothing in this Article shall prevent the funding of particular preventive or remedial measures in order to achieve the objectives of this Directive.</p> <p class="norm">4. Member States shall not be in breach of this Directive if they decide in accordance with established practices not to apply the provisions of paragraph 1, second sentence, and for that purpose the relevant provisions of paragraph 2, for a given water-use activity, where this does not compromise the purposes and the achievement of the objectives of this Directive. Member States shall report the reasons for not fully applying paragraph 1, second sentence, in the river basin management plans.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 10</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">The combined approach for point and diffuse sources</p> <p class="norm">1. Member States shall ensure that all discharges referred to in paragraph 2 into surface waters are controlled according to the combined approach set out in this Article.</p> <p class="norm">2. Member States shall ensure the establishment and/or implementation of:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the emission controls based on best available techniques, or</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the relevant emission limit values, or</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>in the case of diffuse impacts the controls including, as appropriate, best environmental practices</p> </div> <p class="norm">set out in:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control (<a href="#E0019" id="src.E0019" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">19</span> </a>),</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment (<a href="#E0020" id="src.E0020" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">20</span> </a>),</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (<a href="#E0021" id="src.E0021" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">21</span> </a>),</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the Directives adopted pursuant to Article 16 of this Directive,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the Directives listed in Annex IX,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>any other relevant Community legislation</p> </div> <p class="norm">at the latest 12 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive, unless otherwise specified in the legislation concerned.</p> <p class="norm">3. Where a quality objective or quality standard, whether established pursuant to this Directive, in the Directives listed in Annex IX, or pursuant to any other Community legislation, requires stricter conditions than those which would result from the application of paragraph 2, more stringent emission controls shall be set accordingly.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 11</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Programme of measures</p> <p class="norm">1. Each Member State shall ensure the establishment for each river basin district, or for the part of an international river basin district within its territory, of a programme of measures, taking account of the results of the analyses required under Article 5, in order to achieve the objectives established under Article 4. Such programmes of measures may make reference to measures following from legislation adopted at national level and covering the whole of the territory of a Member State. Where appropriate, a Member State may adopt measures applicable to all river basin districts and/or the portions of international river basin districts falling within its territory.</p> <p class="norm">2. Each programme of measures shall include the ‘basic’ measures specified in paragraph 3 and, where necessary, ‘supplementary’ measures.</p> <p class="norm">3. ‘Basic measures’ are the minimum requirements to be complied with and shall consist of:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>those measures required to implement Community legislation for the protection of water, including measures required under the legislation specified in Article 10 and in part A of Annex VI;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>measures deemed appropriate for the purposes of Article 9;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>measures to promote an efficient and sustainable water use in order to avoid compromising the achievement of the objectives specified in Article 4;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(d)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>measures to meet the requirements of Article 7, including measures to safeguard water quality in order to reduce the level of purification treatment required for the production of drinking water;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(e)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>controls over the abstraction of fresh surface water and groundwater, and impoundment of fresh surface water, including a register or registers of water abstractions and a requirement of prior authorisation for abstraction and impoundment. These controls shall be periodically reviewed and, where necessary, updated. Member States can exempt from these controls, abstractions or impoundments which have no significant impact on water status;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(f)<span style="word-spacing: 20pt"> </span>controls, including a requirement for prior authorisation of artificial recharge or augmentation of groundwater bodies. The water used may be derived from any surface water or groundwater, provided that the use of the source does not compromise the achievement of the environmental objectives established for the source or the recharged or augmented body of groundwater. These controls shall be periodically reviewed and, where necessary, updated;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(g)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>for point source discharges liable to cause pollution, a requirement for prior regulation, such as a prohibition on the entry of pollutants into water, or for prior authorisation, or registration based on general binding rules, laying down emission controls for the pollutants concerned, including controls in accordance with Articles 10 and 16. These controls shall be periodically reviewed and, where necessary, updated;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(h)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>for diffuse sources liable to cause pollution, measures to prevent or control the input of pollutants. Controls may take the form of a requirement for prior regulation, such as a prohibition on the entry of pollutants into water, prior authorisation or registration based on general binding rules where such a requirement is not otherwise provided for under Community legislation. These controls shall be periodically reviewed and, where necessary, updated;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>for any other significant adverse impacts on the status of water identified under Article 5 and Annex II, in particular measures to ensure that the hydromorphological conditions of the bodies of water are consistent with the achievement of the required ecological status or good ecological potential for bodies of water designated as artificial or heavily modified. Controls for this purpose may take the form of a requirement for prior authorisation or registration based on general binding rules where such a requirement is not otherwise provided for under Community legislation. Such controls shall be periodically reviewed and, where necessary, updated;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(j)<span style="word-spacing: 21pt"> </span>a prohibition of direct discharges of pollutants into groundwater subject to the following provisions:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Member States may authorise reinjection into the same aquifer of water used for geothermal purposes.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">They may also authorise, specifying the conditions for:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>injection of water containing substances resulting from the operations for exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons or mining activities, and injection of water for technical reasons, into geological formations from which hydrocarbons or other substances have been extracted or into geological formations which for natural reasons are permanently unsuitable for other purposes. Such injections shall not contain substances other than those resulting from the above operations,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>reinjection of pumped groundwater from mines and quarries or associated with the construction or maintenance of civil engineering works,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>injection of natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for storage purposes into geological formations which for natural reasons are permanently unsuitable for other purposes,</p> </div> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32009L0031" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32009L0031: INSERTED" shape="rect">▼M4</a> </p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>injection of carbon dioxide streams for storage purposes into geological formations which for natural reasons are permanently unsuitable for other purposes, provided that such injection is made in accordance with Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the geological storage of carbon dioxide (<a href="#E0022" id="src.E0022" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">22</span> </a>) or excluded from the scope of that Directive pursuant to its Article 2(2),</p> </div> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>injection of natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for storage purposes into other geological formations where there is an overriding need for security of gas supply, and where the injection is such as to prevent any present or future danger of deterioration in the quality of any receiving groundwater,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>construction, civil engineering and building works and similar activities on, or in the ground which come into contact with groundwater. For these purposes, Member States may determine that such activities are to be treated as having been authorised provided that they are conducted in accordance with general binding rules developed by the Member State in respect of such activities,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>discharges of small quantities of substances for scientific purposes for characterisation, protection or remediation of water bodies limited to the amount strictly necessary for the purposes concerned</p> </div> <p class="norm">provided such discharges do not compromise the achievement of the environmental objectives established for that body of groundwater;</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(k)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>in accordance with action taken pursuant to Article 16, measures to eliminate pollution of surface waters by those substances specified in the list of priority substances agreed pursuant to Article 16(2) and to progressively reduce pollution by other substances which would otherwise prevent Member States from achieving the objectives for the bodies of surface waters as set out in Article 4;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(l)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>any measures required to prevent significant losses of pollutants from technical installations, and to prevent and/or to reduce the impact of accidental pollution incidents for example as a result of floods, including through systems to detect or give warning of such events including, in the case of accidents which could not reasonably have been foreseen, all appropriate measures to reduce the risk to aquatic ecosystems.</p> </div> <p class="norm">4. ‘Supplementary’ measures are those measures designed and implemented in addition to the basic measures, with the aim of achieving the objectives established pursuant to Article 4. Part B of Annex VI contains a non-exclusive list of such measures.</p> <p class="norm">Member States may also adopt further supplementary measures in order to provide for additional protection or improvement of the waters covered by this Directive, including in implementation of the relevant international agreements referred to in Article 1.</p> <p class="norm">5. Where monitoring or other data indicate that the objectives set under Article 4 for the body of water are unlikely to be achieved, the Member State shall ensure that:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the causes of the possible failure are investigated,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>relevant permits and authorisations are examined and reviewed as appropriate,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the monitoring programmes are reviewed and adjusted as appropriate, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>additional measures as may be necessary in order to achieve those objectives are established, including, as appropriate, the establishment of stricter environmental quality standards following the procedures laid down in Annex V.</p> </div> <p class="norm">Where those causes are the result of circumstances of natural cause or <span class="italics">force majeure</span> which are exceptional and could not reasonably have been foreseen, in particular extreme floods and prolonged droughts, the Member State may determine that additional measures are not practicable, subject to Article 4(6).</p> <p class="norm">6. In implementing measures pursuant to paragraph 3, Member States shall take all appropriate steps not to increase pollution of marine waters. Without prejudice to existing legislation, the application of measures taken pursuant to paragraph 3 may on no account lead, either directly or indirectly to increased pollution of surface waters. This requirement shall not apply where it would result in increased pollution of the environment as a whole.</p> <p class="norm">7. The programmes of measures shall be established at the latest nine years after the date of entry into force of this Directive and all the measures shall be made operational at the latest 12 years after that date.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0064" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0064: INSERTED" shape="rect">▼M6</a> </p> <p class="norm">As regards Mayotte, the time limits referred to in the first subparagraph shall be 22 December 2015 and 22 December 2018, respectively.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="norm">8. The programmes of measures shall be reviewed, and if necessary updated at the latest 15 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive and every six years thereafter. Any new or revised measures established under an updated programme shall be made operational within three years of their establishment.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0064" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0064: INSERTED" shape="rect">▼M6</a> </p> <p class="norm">As regards Mayotte, the time limit referred to in the first subparagraph shall be 22 December 2021.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 12</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Issues which can not be dealt with at Member State level</p> <p class="norm">1. Where a Member State identifies an issue which has an impact on the management of its water but cannot be resolved by that Member State, it may report the issue to the Commission and any other Member State concerned and may make recommendations for the resolution of it.</p> <p class="norm">2. The Commission shall respond to any report or recommendations from Member States within a period of six months.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 13</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">River basin management plans</p> <p class="norm">1. Member States shall ensure that a river basin management plan is produced for each river basin district lying entirely within their territory.</p> <p class="norm">2. In the case of an international river basin district falling entirely within the Community, Member States shall ensure coordination with the aim of producing a single international river basin management plan. Where such an international river basin management plan is not produced, Member States shall produce river basin management plans covering at least those parts of the international river basin district falling within their territory to achieve the objectives of this Directive.</p> <p class="norm">3. In the case of an international river basin district extending beyond the boundaries of the Community, Member States shall endeavour to produce a single river basin management plan, and, where this is not possible, the plan shall at least cover the portion of the international river basin district lying within the territory of the Member State concerned.</p> <p class="norm">4. The river basin management plan shall include the information detailed in Annex VII.</p> <p class="norm">5. River basin management plans may be supplemented by the production of more detailed programmes and management plans for sub-basin, sector, issue, or water type, to deal with particular aspects of water management. Implementation of these measures shall not exempt Member States from any of their obligations under the rest of this Directive.</p> <p class="norm">6. River basin management plans shall be published at the latest nine years after the date of entry into force of this Directive.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0064" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0064: INSERTED" shape="rect">▼M6</a> </p> <p class="norm">As regards Mayotte, the time limit referred to in the first subparagraph shall be 22 December 2015.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="norm">7. River basin management plans shall be reviewed and updated at the latest 15 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive and every six years thereafter.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0064" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0064: INSERTED" shape="rect">▼M6</a> </p> <p class="norm">As regards Mayotte, the time limit referred to in the first subparagraph shall be 22 December 2021.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 14</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Public information and consultation</p> <p class="norm">1. Member States shall encourage the active involvement of all interested parties in the implementation of this Directive, in particular in the production, review and updating of the river basin management plans. Member States shall ensure that, for each river basin district, they publish and make available for comments to the public, including users:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>a timetable and work programme for the production of the plan, including a statement of the consultation measures to be taken, at least three years before the beginning of the period to which the plan refers;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>an interim overview of the significant water management issues identified in the river basin, at least two years before the beginning of the period to which the plan refers;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>draft copies of the river basin management plan, at least one year before the beginning of the period to which the plan refers.</p> </div> <p class="norm">On request, access shall be given to background documents and information used for the development of the draft river basin management plan.</p> <p class="norm">2. Member States shall allow at least six months to comment in writing on those documents in order to allow active involvement and consultation.</p> <p class="norm">3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply equally to updated river basin management plans.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 15</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Reporting</p> <p class="norm">1. Member States shall send copies of the river basin management plans and all subsequent updates to the Commission and to any other Member State concerned within three months of their publication:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>for river basin districts falling entirely within the territory of a Member State, all river management plans covering that national territory and published pursuant to Article 13;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>for international river basin districts, at least the part of the river basin management plans covering the territory of the Member State.</p> </div> <p class="norm">2. Member States shall submit summary reports of:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the analyses required under Article 5, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the monitoring programmes designed under Article 8</p> </div> <p class="norm">undertaken for the purposes of the first river basin management plan within three months of their completion.</p> <p class="norm">3. Member States shall, within three years of the publication of each river basin management plan or update under Article 13, submit an interim report describing progress in the implementation of the planned programme of measures.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 16</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Strategies against pollution of water</p> <p class="norm">1. The European Parliament and the Council shall adopt specific measures against pollution of water by individual pollutants or groups of pollutants presenting a significant risk to or via the aquatic environment, including such risks to waters used for the abstraction of drinking water. For those pollutants measures shall be aimed at the progressive reduction and, for priority hazardous substances, as defined in Article 2(30), at the cessation or phasing-out of discharges, emissions and losses. Such measures shall be adopted acting on the proposals presented by the Commission in accordance with the procedures laid down in the Treaty.</p> <p class="norm">2. The Commission shall submit a proposal setting out a list of priority substances selected amongst those which present a significant risk to or via the aquatic environment. Substances shall be prioritised for action on the basis of risk to or via the aquatic environment, identified by:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>risk assessment carried out under Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 (<a href="#E0023" id="src.E0023" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">23</span> </a>), Council Directive 91/414/EEC (<a href="#E0024" id="src.E0024" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">24</span> </a>), and Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (<a href="#E0025" id="src.E0025" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">25</span> </a>), or</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>targeted risk-based assessment (following the methodology of Regulation (EEC) No 793/93) focusing solely on aquatic ecotoxicity and on human toxicity via the aquatic environment.</p> </div> <p class="norm">When necessary in order to meet the timetable laid down in paragraph 4, substances shall be prioritised for action on the basis of risk to, or via the aquatic environment, identified by a simplified risk-based assessment procedure based on scientific principles taking particular account of:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>evidence regarding the intrinsic hazard of the substance concerned, and in particular its aquatic ecotoxicity and human toxicity via aquatic exposure routes, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>evidence from monitoring of widespread environmental contamination, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>other proven factors which may indicate the possibility of widespread environmental contamination, such as production or use volume of the substance concerned, and use patterns.</p> </div> <p class="norm">3. The Commission's proposal shall also identify the priority hazardous substances. In doing so, the Commission shall take into account the selection of substances of concern undertaken in the relevant Community legislation regarding hazardous substances or relevant international agreements.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0039" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0039: REPLACED" shape="rect">▼M5</a> </p> <p class="norm">4. The Commission shall review the adopted list of priority substances at the latest four years after the date of entry into force of this Directive and at least every six years thereafter, and come forward with proposals as appropriate.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="norm">5. In preparing its proposal, the Commission shall take account of recommendations from the Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment, Member States, the European Parliament, the European Environment Agency, Community research programmes, international organisations to which the Community is a party, European business organisations including those representing small and medium-sized enterprises, European environmental organisations, and of other relevant information which comes to its attention.</p> <p class="norm">6. For the priority substances, the Commission shall submit proposals of controls for:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the progressive reduction of discharges, emissions and losses of the substances concerned, and, in particular</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the cessation or phasing-out of discharges, emissions and losses of the substances as identified in accordance with paragraph 3, including an appropriate timetable for doing so. The timetable shall not exceed 20 years after the adoption of these proposals by the European Parliament and the Council in accordance with the provisions of this Article.</p> </div> <p class="norm">In doing so it shall identify the appropriate cost-effective and proportionate level and combination of product and process controls for both point and diffuse sources and take account of Community-wide uniform emission limit values for process controls. Where appropriate, action at Community level for process controls may be established on a sector-by-sector basis. Where product controls include a review of the relevant authorisations issued under Directive 91/414/EEC and Directive 98/8/EC, such reviews shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of those Directives. Each proposal for controls shall specify arrangements for their review, updating and for assessment of their effectiveness.</p> <p class="norm">7. The Commission shall submit proposals for quality standards applicable to the concentrations of the priority substances in surface water, sediments or biota.</p> <p class="norm">8. The Commission shall submit proposals, in accordance with paragraphs 6 and 7, and at least for emission controls for point sources and environmental quality standards within two years of the inclusion of the substance concerned on the list of priority substances. For substances included in the first list of priority substances, in the absence of agreement at Community level six years after the date of entry into force of this Directive, Member States shall establish environmental quality standards for these substances for all surface waters affected by discharges of those substances, and controls on the principal sources of such discharges, based, <span class="italics">inter alia</span>, on consideration of all technical reduction options. For substances subsequently included in the list of priority substances, in the absence of agreement at Community level, Member States shall take such action five years after the date of inclusion in the list.</p> <p class="norm">9. The Commission may prepare strategies against pollution of water by any other pollutants or groups of pollutants, including any pollution which occurs as a result of accidents.</p> <p class="norm">10. In preparing its proposals under paragraphs 6 and 7, the Commission shall also review all the Directives listed in Annex IX. It shall propose, by the deadline in paragraph 8, a revision of the controls in Annex IX for all those substances which are included in the list of priority substances and shall propose the appropriate measures including the possible repeal of the controls under Annex IX for all other substances.</p> <p class="norm">All the controls in Annex IX for which revisions are proposed shall be repealed by the date of entry into force of those revisions.</p> <p class="norm">11. The list of priority substances of substances mentioned in paragraphs 2 and 3 proposed by the Commission shall, on its adoption by the European Parliament and the Council, become Annex X to this Directive. Its revision mentioned in paragraph 4 shall follow the same procedure.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 17</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Strategies to prevent and control pollution of groundwater</p> <p class="norm">1. The European Parliament and the Council shall adopt specific measures to prevent and control groundwater pollution. Such measures shall be aimed at achieving the objective of good groundwater chemical status in accordance with Article 4(1)(b) and shall be adopted, acting on the proposal presented within two years after the entry into force of this Directive, by the Commission in accordance with the procedures laid down in the Treaty.</p> <p class="norm">2. In proposing measures the Commission shall have regard to the analysis carried out according to Article 5 and Annex II. Such measures shall be proposed earlier if data are available and shall include:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>criteria for assessing good groundwater chemical status, in accordance with Annex II.2.2 and Annex V 2.3.2 and 2.4.5;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>criteria for the identification of significant and sustained upward trends and for the definition of starting points for trend reversals to be used in accordance with Annex V 2.4.4.</p> </div> <p class="norm">3. Measures resulting from the application of paragraph 1 shall be included in the programmes of measures required under Article 11.</p> <p class="norm">4. In the absence of criteria adopted under paragraph 2 at Community level, Member States shall establish appropriate criteria at the latest five years after the date of entry into force of this Directive.</p> <p class="norm">5. In the absence of criteria adopted under paragraph 4 at national level, trend reversal shall take as its starting point a maximum of 75% of the level of the quality standards set out in existing Community legislation applicable to groundwater.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 18</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Commission report</p> <p class="norm">1. The Commission shall publish a report on the implementation of this Directive at the latest 12 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive and every six years thereafter, and shall submit it to the European Parliament and to the Council.</p> <p class="norm">2. The report shall include the following:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>a review of progress in the implementation of the Directive;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>a review of the status of surface water and groundwater in the Community undertaken in coordination with the European Environment Agency;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>a survey of the river basin management plans submitted in accordance with Article 15, including suggestions for the improvement of future plans;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(d)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>a summary of the response to each of the reports or recommendations to the Commission made by Member States pursuant to Article 12;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(e)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>a summary of any proposals, control measures and strategies developed under Article 16;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(f)<span style="word-spacing: 20pt"> </span>a summary of the responses to comments made by the European Parliament and the Council on previous implementation reports.</p> </div> <p class="norm">3. The Commission shall also publish a report on progress in implementation based on the summary reports that Member States submit under Article 15(2), and submit it to the European Parliament and the Member States, at the latest two years after the dates referred to in Articles 5 and 8.</p> <p class="norm">4. The Commission shall, within three years of the publication of each report under paragraph 1, publish an interim report describing progress in implementation on the basis of the interim reports of the Member States as mentioned in Article 15(3). This shall be submitted to the European Parliament and to the Council.</p> <p class="norm">5. The Commission shall convene when appropriate, in line with the reporting cycle, a conference of interested parties on Community water policy from each of the Member States, to comment on the Commission's implementation reports and to share experiences.</p> <p class="norm">Participants should include representatives from the competent authorities, the European Parliament, NGOs, the social and economic partners, consumer bodies, academics and other experts.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 19</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Plans for future Community measures</p> <p class="norm">1. Once a year, the Commission shall for information purposes present to the Committee referred to in Article 21 an indicative plan of measures having an impact on water legislation which it intends to propose in the near future, including any emerging from the proposals, control measures and strategies developed under Article 16. The Commission shall make the first such presentation at the latest two years after the date of entry into force of this Directive.</p> <p class="norm">2. The Commission will review this Directive at the latest 19 years after the date of its entry into force and will propose any necessary amendments to it.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32008L0032" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32008L0032: REPLACED" shape="rect">▼M2</a> </p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 20</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Technical adaptations to the Directive</p> <p class="norm">1. Annexes I, III and section 1.3.6 of Annex V may be adapted to scientific and technical progress taking account of the periods for review and updating of the river basin management plans as referred to in Article 13. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 21(3).</p> <p class="norm">Where necessary, the Commission may adopt guidelines on the implementation of Annexes II and V in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 21(2).</p> <p class="norm">2. For the purpose of transmission and processing of data, including statistical and cartographic data, technical formats for the purpose of paragraph 1 may be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 21(2).</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 21</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Committee procedure</p> <p class="norm">1. The Commission shall be assisted by a committee.</p> <p class="norm">2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.</p> <p class="norm">The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at three months.</p> <p class="norm">3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 22</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Repeals and transitional provisions</p> <p class="norm">1. The following shall be repealed with effect from seven years after the date of entry into force of this Directive:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>Directive 75/440/EEC of 16 June 1975 concerning the quality required of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking water in the Member States (<a href="#E0026" id="src.E0026" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">26</span> </a>),</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>Council Decision 77/795/EEC of 12 December 1977 establishing a common procedure for the exchange of information on the quality of surface freshwater in the Community (<a href="#E0027" id="src.E0027" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">27</span> </a>),</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>Council Directive 79/869/EEC of 9 October 1979 concerning the methods of measurement and frequencies of sampling and analysis of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking waters in the Member States (<a href="#E0028" id="src.E0028" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">28</span> </a>).</p> </div> <p class="norm">2. The following shall be repealed with effect from 13 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>Council Directive 78/659/EEC of 18 July 1978 on the quality of freshwaters needing protection or improvement in order to support fish life (<a href="#E0029" id="src.E0029" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">29</span> </a>),</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>Council Directive 79/923/EEC of 30 October 1979 on the quality required of shellfish waters (<a href="#E0030" id="src.E0030" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">30</span> </a>),</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>Council Directive 80/68/EEC of 17 December 1979 on the protection of groundwater against pollution caused by certain dangerous substances,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>Directive 76/464/EEC, with the exception of Article 6, which shall be repealed with effect from the entry into force of this Directive.</p> </div> <p class="norm">3. The following transitional provisions shall apply for Directive 76/464/EEC:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the list of priority substances adopted under Article 16 of this Directive shall replace the list of substances prioritised in the Commission communication to the Council of 22 June 1982;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>for the purposes of Article 7 of Directive 76/464/EEC, Member States may apply the principles for the identification of pollution problems and the substances causing them, the establishment of quality standards, and the adoption of measures, laid down in this Directive.</p> </div> <p class="norm">4. The environmental objectives in Article 4 and environmental quality standards established in Annex IX and pursuant to Article 16(7), and by Member States under Annex V for substances not on the list of priority substances and under Article 16(8) in respect of priority substances for which Community standards have not been set, shall be regarded as environmental quality standards for the purposes of point 7 of Article 2 and Article 10 of Directive 96/61/EC.</p> <p class="norm">5. Where a substance on the list of priority substances adopted under Article 16 is not included in Annex VIII to this Directive or in Annex III to Directive 96/61/EC, it shall be added thereto.</p> <p class="norm">6. For bodies of surface water, environmental objectives established under the first river basin management plan required by this Directive shall, as a minimum, give effect to quality standards at least as stringent as those required to implement Directive 76/464/EEC.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 23</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Penalties</p> <p class="norm">Member States shall determine penalties applicable to breaches of the national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive. The penalties thus provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 24</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Implementation</p> <p class="norm">1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive at the latest 22 December 2003. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.</p> <p class="norm">When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such a reference shall be laid down by the Member States.</p> <p class="norm">2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the texts of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field governed by this Directive. The Commission shall inform the other Member States thereof.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 25</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Entry into force</p> <p class="norm">DieThis Directive shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the <span class="italics">Official Journal of the European Communities</span>.</p> <p class="title-article-norm">Article 26</p> <p class="stitle-article-norm">Addressees</p> <p class="norm">This Directive is addressed to the Member States.</p> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX I</p> <p class="title-annex-2">INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR THE LIST OF COMPETENT AUTHORITIES</p> <p class="norm">As required under Article 3(8), the Member States shall provide the following information on all competent authorities within each of its river basin districts as well as the portion of any international river basin district lying within their territory.</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span> <span class="italics">Name and address of the competent authority</span> — the official name and address of the authority identified under Article 3(2).</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span> <span class="italics">Geographical coverage of the river basin district</span> — the names of the main rivers within the river basin district together with a precise description of the boundaries of the river basin district. This information should as far as possible be available for introduction into a geographic information system (GIS) and/or the geographic information system of the Commission (GISCO).</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span> <span class="italics">Legal status of competent authority</span> — a description of the legal status of the competent authority and, where relevant, a summary or copy of its statute, founding treaty or equivalent legal document.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span> <span class="italics">Responsibilities</span> — a description of the legal and administrative responsibilities of each competent authority and of its role within each river basin district.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(v)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span> <span class="italics">Membership</span> — where the competent authority acts as a coordinating body for other competent authorities, a list is required of these bodies together with a summary of the institutional relationships established in order to ensure coordination.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(vi)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span> <span class="italics">International relationships</span> — where a river basin district covers the territory of more than one Member State or includes the territory of non-Member States, a summary is required of the institutional relationships established in order to ensure coordination.</p> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX II</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1 <span class="boldface">SURFACE WATERS</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.1. <span class="boldface">Characterisation of surface water body types</span> </p> <p class="norm">Member States shall identify the location and boundaries of bodies of surface water and shall carry out an initial characterisation of all such bodies in accordance with the following methodology. Member States may group surface water bodies together for the purposes of this initial characterisation.</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>The surface water bodies within the river basin district shall be identified as falling within either one of the following surface water categories — rivers, lakes, transitional waters or coastal waters — or as artificial surface water bodies or heavily modified surface water bodies.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>For each surface water category, the relevant surface water bodies within the river basin district shall be differentiated according to type. These types are those defined using either ‘system A’ or ‘system B’ identified in section 1.2.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>If system A is used, the surface water bodies within the river basin district shall first be differentiated by the relevant ecoregions in accordance with the geographical areas identified in section 1.2 and shown on the relevant map in Annex XI. The water bodies within each ecoregion shall then be differentiated by surface water body types according to the descriptors set out in the tables for system A.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>If system B is used, Member States must achieve at least the same degree of differentiation as would be achieved using system A. Accordingly, the surface water bodies within the river basin district shall be differentiated into types using the values for the obligatory descriptors and such optional descriptors, or combinations of descriptors, as are required to ensure that type specific biological reference conditions can be reliably derived.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(v)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>For artificial and heavily modified surface water bodies the differentiation shall be undertaken in accordance with the descriptors for whichever of the surface water categories most closely resembles the heavily modified or artificial water body concerned.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(vi)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Member States shall submit to the Commission a map or maps (in a GIS format) of the geographical location of the types consistent with the degree of differentiation required under system A.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2. <span class="boldface">Ecoregions and surface water body types</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2.1. <span class="boldface">Rivers</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">System A</p> <table width="640" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="2%" span="1"/> <col width="98%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Fixed typology</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Descriptors</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Ecoregion</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Ecoregions shown on map A in Annex XI</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Type</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Altitude typology</p> <p class="tbl-norm">high: > 800 m</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mid-altitude: 200 to 800 m</p> <p class="tbl-norm">lowland: < 200 m</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Size typology based on catchment area</p> <p class="tbl-norm">small: 10 to 100 km<span class="superscript">2</span> </p> <p class="tbl-norm">medium: > 100 to 1 000 km<span class="superscript">2</span> </p> <p class="tbl-norm">large: > 1 000 to 10 000 km<span class="superscript">2</span> </p> <p class="tbl-norm">very large: > 10 000 km<span class="superscript">2</span> </p> <p class="tbl-norm">Geology</p> <p class="item-none">calcareous</p> <p class="item-none">siliceous</p> <p class="item-none">organic</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">System B</p> <table width="720" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="3%" span="1"/> <col width="97%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Alternative characterisation</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Physical and chemical factors that determine the characteristics of the river or part of the river and hence the biological population structure and composition</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Obligatory factors</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">altitude</p> <p class="tbl-norm">latitude</p> <p class="tbl-norm">longitude</p> <p class="tbl-norm">geology</p> <p class="tbl-norm">size</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Optional factors</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">distance from river source</p> <p class="tbl-norm">energy of flow (function of flow and slope)</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean water width</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean water depth</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean water slope</p> <p class="tbl-norm">form and shape of main river bed</p> <p class="tbl-norm">river discharge (flow) category</p> <p class="tbl-norm">valley shape</p> <p class="tbl-norm">transport of solids</p> <p class="tbl-norm">acid neutralising capacity</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean substratum composition</p> <p class="tbl-norm">chloride</p> <p class="tbl-norm">air temperature range</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean air temperature</p> <p class="tbl-norm">precipitation</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2.2. <span class="boldface">Lakes</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">System A</p> <table width="720" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="2%" span="1"/> <col width="98%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Fixed typology</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Descriptors</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Ecoregion</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Ecoregions shown on map A in Annex XI</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Type</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Altitude typology</p> <p class="tbl-norm">high: > 800 m</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mid-altitude: 200 to 800 m</p> <p class="tbl-norm">lowland: < 200 m</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Depth typology based on mean depth</p> <p class="item-none">< 3 m</p> <p class="item-none">3 to 15 m</p> <p class="item-none">> 15 m</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Size typology based on surface area</p> <p class="item-none">0,5 to 1 km<span class="superscript">2</span> </p> <p class="item-none">1 to 10 km<span class="superscript">2</span> </p> <p class="item-none">10 to 100 km<span class="superscript">2</span> </p> <p class="item-none">> 100 km<span class="superscript">2</span> </p> <p class="tbl-norm">Geology</p> <p class="item-none">calcareous</p> <p class="item-none">siliceous</p> <p class="item-none">organic</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">System B</p> <table width="640" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="4%" span="1"/> <col width="96%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Alternative characterisation</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Physical and chemical factors that determine the characteristics of the lake and hence the biological population structure and composition</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Obligatory factors</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">altitude</p> <p class="tbl-norm">latitude</p> <p class="tbl-norm">longitude</p> <p class="tbl-norm">depth</p> <p class="tbl-norm">geology</p> <p class="tbl-norm">size</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Optional factors</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">mean water depth</p> <p class="tbl-norm">lake shape</p> <p class="tbl-norm">residence time</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean air temperature</p> <p class="tbl-norm">air temperature range</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mixing characteristics (e.g. monomictic, dimictic, polymictic)</p> <p class="tbl-norm">acid neutralising capacity</p> <p class="tbl-norm">background nutrient status</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean substratum composition</p> <p class="tbl-norm">water level fluctuation</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2.3. <span class="boldface">Transitional Waters</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">System A</p> <table width="640" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="2%" span="1"/> <col width="98%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Fixed typology</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Descriptors</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Ecoregion</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The following as identified on map B in Annex XI:</p> <p class="item-none">Baltic Sea</p> <p class="item-none">Barents Sea</p> <p class="item-none">Norwegian Sea</p> <p class="item-none">North Sea</p> <p class="item-none">North Atlantic Ocean</p> <p class="item-none">Mediterranean Sea</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Type</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Based on mean annual salinity</p> <p class="tbl-norm">< 0,5 ‰: freshwater</p> <p class="tbl-norm">0,5 to < 5 ‰: oligohaline</p> <p class="tbl-norm">5 to < 18 ‰: mesohaline</p> <p class="tbl-norm">18 to < 30 ‰: polyhaline</p> <p class="tbl-norm">30 to < 40 ‰: euhaline</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Based on mean tidal range</p> <p class="tbl-norm">< 2 m: microtidal</p> <p class="tbl-norm">2 to 4 m: mesotidal</p> <p class="tbl-norm">> 4 m: macrotidal</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">System B</p> <table width="480" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="6%" span="1"/> <col width="94%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Alternative characterisation</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Physical and chemical factors that determine the characteristics of the transitional water and hence the biological population structure and composition</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Obligatory factors</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">latitude</p> <p class="tbl-norm">longitude</p> <p class="tbl-norm">tidal range</p> <p class="tbl-norm">salinity</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Optional factors</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">depth</p> <p class="tbl-norm">current velocity</p> <p class="tbl-norm">wave exposure</p> <p class="tbl-norm">residence time</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean water temperature</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mixing characteristics</p> <p class="tbl-norm">turbidity</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean substratum composition</p> <p class="tbl-norm">shape</p> <p class="tbl-norm">water temperature range</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2.4. <span class="boldface">Coastal Waters</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">System A</p> <table width="640" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="2%" span="1"/> <col width="98%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Fixed typology</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Descriptors</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Ecoregion</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The following as identified on map B in Annex XI:</p> <p class="item-none">Baltic Sea</p> <p class="item-none">Barents Sea</p> <p class="item-none">Norwegian Sea</p> <p class="item-none">North Sea</p> <p class="item-none">North Atlantic Ocean</p> <p class="item-none">Mediterranean Sea</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Type</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Based on mean annual salinity</p> <p class="tbl-norm">< 0,5 ‰: freshwater</p> <p class="tbl-norm">0,5 to < 5 ‰: oligohaline</p> <p class="tbl-norm">5 to < 18 ‰: mesohaline</p> <p class="tbl-norm">18 to < 30 ‰: polyhaline</p> <p class="tbl-norm">30 to < 40 ‰: euhaline</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Based on mean depth</p> <p class="tbl-norm">shallow waters: < 30 m</p> <p class="tbl-norm">intermediate: (30 to 200 m)</p> <p class="tbl-norm">deep: > 200 m</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">System B</p> <table width="480" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="6%" span="1"/> <col width="94%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Alternative characterisation</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Physical and chemical factors that determine the characteristics of the coastal water and hence the biological community structure and composition</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Obligatory factors</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">latitude</p> <p class="tbl-norm">longitude</p> <p class="tbl-norm">tidal range</p> <p class="tbl-norm">salinity</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Optional factors</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">current velocity</p> <p class="tbl-norm">wave exposure</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean water temperature</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mixing characteristics</p> <p class="tbl-norm">turbidity</p> <p class="tbl-norm">retention time (of enclosed bays)</p> <p class="tbl-norm">mean substratum composition</p> <p class="tbl-norm">water temperature range</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.3. <span class="boldface">Establishment of type-specific reference conditions for surface water body types</span> </p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>For each surface water body type characterised in accordance with section 1.1, type-specific hydromorphological and physicochemical conditions shall be established representing the values of the hydromorphological and physicochemical quality elements specified in point 1.1 in Annex V for that surface water body type at high ecological status as defined in the relevant table in point 1.2 in Annex V. Type-specific biological reference conditions shall be established, representing the values of the biological quality elements specified in point 1.1 in Annex V for that surface water body type at high ecological status as defined in the relevant table in section 1.2 in Annex V.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>In applying the procedures set out in this section to heavily modified or artificial surface water bodies references to high ecological status shall be construed as references to maximum ecological potential as defined in table 1.2.5 of Annex V. The values for maximum ecological potential for a water body shall be reviewed every six years.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>Type-specific conditions for the purposes of points (i) and (ii) and type-specific biological reference conditions may be either spatially based or based on modelling, or may be derived using a combination of these methods. Where it is not possible to use these methods, Member States may use expert judgement to establish such conditions. In defining high ecological status in respect of concentrations of specific synthetic pollutants, the detection limits are those which can be achieved in accordance with the available techniques at the time when the type-specific conditions are to be established.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>For spatially based type-specific biological reference conditions, Member States shall develop a reference network for each surface water body type. The network shall contain a sufficient number of sites of high status to provide a sufficient level of confidence about the values for the reference conditions, given the variability in the values of the quality elements corresponding to high ecological status for that surface water body type and the modelling techniques which are to be applied under paragraph (v).</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(v)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>Type-specific biological reference conditions based on modelling may be derived using either predictive models or hindcasting methods. The methods shall use historical, palaeological and other available data and shall provide a sufficient level of confidence about the values for the reference conditions to ensure that the conditions so derived are consistent and valid for each surface water body type.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(vi)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Where it is not possible to establish reliable type-specific reference conditions for a quality element in a surface water body type due to high degrees of natural variability in that element, not just as a result of seasonal variations, then that element may be excluded from the assessment of ecological status for that surface water type. In such circumstances Member States shall state the reasons for this exclusion in the river basin management plan.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.4. <span class="boldface">Identification of Pressures</span> </p> <p class="norm">Member States shall collect and maintain information on the type and magnitude of the significant anthropogenic pressures to which the surface water bodies in each river basin district are liable to be subject, in particular the following.</p> <p class="norm">Estimation and identification of significant point source pollution, in particular by substances listed in Annex VIII, from urban, industrial, agricultural and other installations and activities, based, <span class="italics">inter alia,</span> on information gathered under:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Articles 15 and 17 of Directive 91/271/EEC;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>Articles 9 and 15 of Directive 96/61/EC (<a href="#E0031" id="src.E0031" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">31</span> </a>);</p> </div> <p class="norm">and for the purposes of the initial river basin management plan:</p> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>Article 11 of Directive 76/464/EEC; and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Directives 75/440/EC, 76/160/EEC (<a href="#E0032" id="src.E0032" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">32</span> </a>), 78/659/EEC and 79/923/EEC (<a href="#E0033" id="src.E0033" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">33</span> </a>).</p> </div> <p class="norm">Estimation and identification of significant diffuse source pollution, in particular by substances listed in Annex VIII, from urban, industrial, agricultural and other installations and activities; based, <span class="italics">inter alia</span>, on information gathered under:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Articles 3, 5 and 6 of Directive 91/676/EEC (<a href="#E0034" id="src.E0034" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">34</span> </a>);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>Articles 7 and 17 of Directive 91/414/EEC;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>Directive 98/8/EC;</p> </div> <p class="norm">and for the purposes of the first river basin management plan:</p> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Directives 75/440/EEC, 76/160/EEC, 76/464/EEC, 78/659/EEC and 79/923/EEC.</p> </div> <p class="norm">Estimation and identification of significant water abstraction for urban, industrial, agricultural and other uses, including seasonal variations and total annual demand, and of loss of water in distribution systems.</p> <p class="norm">Estimation and identification of the impact of significant water flow regulation, including water transfer and diversion, on overall flow characteristics and water balances.</p> <p class="norm">Identification of significant morphological alterations to water bodies.</p> <p class="norm">Estimation and identification of other significant anthropogenic impacts on the status of surface waters.</p> <p class="norm">Estimation of land use patterns, including identification of the main urban, industrial and agricultural areas and, where relevant, fisheries and forests.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.5. <span class="boldface">Assessment of Impact</span> </p> <p class="norm">Member States shall carry out an assessment of the susceptibility of the surface water status of bodies to the pressures identified above.</p> <p class="norm">Member States shall use the information collected above, and any other relevant information including existing environmental monitoring data, to carry out an assessment of the likelihood that surface waters bodies within the river basin district will fail to meet the environmental quality objectives set for the bodies under Article 4. Member States may utilise modelling techniques to assist in such an assessment.</p> <p class="norm">For those bodies identified as being at risk of failing the environmental quality objectives, further characterisation shall, where relevant, be carried out to optimise the design of both the monitoring programmes required under Article 8, and the programmes of measures required under Article 11.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2. <span class="boldface">GROUNDWATERS</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.1. <span class="boldface">Initial characterisation</span> </p> <p class="norm">Member States shall carry out an initial characterisation of all groundwater bodies to assess their uses and the degree to which they are at risk of failing to meet the objectives for each groundwater body under Article 4. Member States may group groundwater bodies together for the purposes of this initial characterisation. This analysis may employ existing hydrological, geological, pedological, land use, discharge, abstraction and other data but shall identify:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the location and boundaries of the groundwater body or bodies,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the pressures to which the groundwater body or bodies are liable to be subject including:</p>—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>diffuse sources of pollution</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>point sources of pollution</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>abstraction</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>artificial recharge,</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the general character of the overlying strata in the catchment area from which the groundwater body receives its recharge,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>those groundwater bodies for which there are directly dependent surface water ecosystems or terrestrial ecosystems.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.2. <span class="boldface">Further characterisation</span> </p> <p class="norm">Following this initial characterisation, Member States shall carry out further characterisation of those groundwater bodies or groups of bodies which have been identified as being at risk in order to establish a more precise assessment of the significance of such risk and identification of any measures to be required under Article 11. Accordingly, this characterisation shall include relevant information on the impact of human activity and, where relevant, information on:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>geological characteristics of the groundwater body including the extent and type of geological units,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>hydrogeological characteristics of the groundwater body including hydraulic conductivity, porosity and confinement,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>characteristics of the superficial deposits and soils in the catchment from which the groundwater body receives its recharge, including the thickness, porosity, hydraulic conductivity, and absorptive properties of the deposits and soils,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>stratification characteristics of the groundwater within the groundwater body,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>an inventory of associated surface systems, including terrestrial ecosystems and bodies of surface water, with which the groundwater body is dynamically linked,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>estimates of the directions and rates of exchange of water between the groundwater body and associated surface systems,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>sufficient data to calculate the long term annual average rate of overall recharge,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>characterisation of the chemical composition of the groundwater, including specification of the contributions from human activity. Member States may use typologies for groundwater characterisation when establishing natural background levels for these bodies of groundwater.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.3. <span class="boldface">Review of the impact of human activity on groundwaters</span> </p> <p class="norm">For those bodies of groundwater which cross the boundary between two or more Member States or are identified following the initial characterisation undertaken in accordance with paragraph 2.1 as being at risk of failing to meet the objectives set for each body under Article 4, the following information shall, where relevant, be collected and maintained for each groundwater body:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the location of points in the groundwater body used for the abstraction of water with the exception of:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>points for the abstraction of water providing less than an average of 10 m<span class="superscript">3</span> per day, or,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>points for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption providing less than an average of 10 m<span class="superscript">3</span> per day or serving less than 50 persons,</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the annual average rates of abstraction from such points,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(c)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the chemical composition of water abstracted from the groundwater body,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(d)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the location of points in the groundwater body into which water is directly discharged,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(e)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>the rates of discharge at such points,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(f)<span style="word-spacing: 20pt"> </span>the chemical composition of discharges to the groundwater body, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(g)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>land use in the catchment or catchments from which the groundwater body receives its recharge, including pollutant inputs and anthropogenic alterations to the recharge characteristics such as rainwater and run-off diversion through land sealing, artificial recharge, damming or drainage.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.4. <span class="boldface">Review of the impact of changes in groundwater levels</span> </p> <p class="norm">Member States shall also identify those bodies of groundwater for which lower objectives are to be specified under Article 4 including as a result of consideration of the effects of the status of the body on:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>surface water and associated terrestrial ecosystems</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>water regulation, flood protection and land drainage</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>human development.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.5. <span class="boldface">Review of the impact of pollution on groundwater quality</span> </p> <p class="norm">Member States shall identify those bodies of groundwater for which lower objectives are to be specified under Article 4(5) where, as a result of the impact of human activity, as determined in accordance with Article 5(1), the body of groundwater is so polluted that achieving good groundwater chemical status is infeasible or disproportionately expensive.</p> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX III</p> <p class="title-annex-2">ECONOMIC ANALYSIS</p> <p class="norm">The economic analysis shall contain enough information in sufficient detail (taking account of the costs associated with collection of the relevant data) in order to:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(a)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>make the relevant calculations necessary for taking into account under Article 9 the principle of recovery of the costs of water services, taking account of long term forecasts of supply and demand for water in the river basin district and, where necessary:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>estimates of the volume, prices and costs associated with water services, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>estimates of relevant investment including forecasts of such investments;</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(b)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>make judgements about the most cost-effective combination of measures in respect of water uses to be included in the programme of measures under Article 11 based on estimates of the potential costs of such measures.</p> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX IV</p> <p class="title-annex-2">PROTECTED AREAS</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The register of protected areas required under Article 6 shall include the following types of protected areas:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>areas designated for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption under Article 7;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>areas designated for the protection of economically significant aquatic species;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>bodies of water designated as recreational waters, including areas designated as bathing waters under Directive 76/160/EEC;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>nutrient-sensitive areas, including areas designated as vulnerable zones under Directive 91/676/EEC and areas designated as sensitive areas under Directive 91/271/EEC; and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(v)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>areas designated for the protection of habitats or species where the maintenance or improvement of the status of water is an important factor in their protection, including relevant Natura 2000 sites designated under Directive 92/43/EEC (<a href="#E0035" id="src.E0035" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">35</span> </a>) and Directive 79/409/EEC (<a href="#E0036" id="src.E0036" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">36</span> </a>).</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The summary of the register required as part of the river basin management plan shall include maps indicating the location of each protected area and a description of the Community, national or local legislation under which they have been designated.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX V</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3"> <col width="15%" span="1"/> <col width="85%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">SURFACE WATER STATUS</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="boldface">Quality elements for the classification of ecological status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.1.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Rivers</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.1.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Lakes</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.1.3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Transitional waters</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.1.4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Coastal waters</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.1.5.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Artificial and heavily modified surface water bodies</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="boldface">Normative definitions of ecological status classifications</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.2.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in rivers</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.2.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in lakes</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.2.3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in transitional waters</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.2.4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in coastal waters</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.2.5.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Definitions for maximum, good and moderate ecological potential for heavily modified or artificial water bodies</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.2.6.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Procedure for the setting of chemical quality standards by Member States</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="boldface">Monitoring of ecological status and chemical status for surface waters</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.3.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Design of surveillance monitoring</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.3.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Design of operational monitoring</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.3.3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Design of investigative monitoring</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.3.4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Frequency of monitoring</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.3.5.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Additional monitoring requirements for protected areas</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.3.6.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Standards for monitoring of quality elements</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="boldface">Classification and presentation of ecological status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.4.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Comparability of biological monitoring results</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.4.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Presentation of monitoring results and classification of ecological status and ecological potential</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">1.4.3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Presentation of monitoring results and classification of chemical status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">GROUNDWATER</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="boldface">Groundwater quantitative status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.1.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Parameter for the classification of quantitative status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.1.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Definition of quantitative status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="boldface">Monitoring of groundwater quantitative status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.2.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Groundwater level monitoring network</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.2.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Density of monitoring sites</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.2.3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Monitoring frequency</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.2.4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Interpretation and presentation of groundwater quantitative status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="boldface">Groundwater chemical status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.3.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Parameters for the determination of groundwater chemical status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.3.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Definition of good groundwater chemical status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="boldface">Monitoring of groundwater chemical status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.4.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Groundwater monitoring network</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.4.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Surveillance monitoring</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.4.3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Operational monitoring</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.4.4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Identification of trends in pollutants</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.4.5.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="expanded">Interpretation and presentation of groundwater chemical status</span> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item">2.5.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="toc-item"> <span class="boldface">Presentation of groundwater status</span> </p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1. <span class="boldface">SURFACE WATER STATUS</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.1. <span class="boldface">Quality elements for the classification of ecological status</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.1.1. <span class="boldface">Rivers</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition and abundance of aquatic flora</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition and abundance of benthic invertebrate fauna</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition, abundance and age structure of fish fauna</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Hydromorphological elements supporting the biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Hydrological regime</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">quantity and dynamics of water flow</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">connection to groundwater bodies</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">River continuity</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Morphological conditions</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">river depth and width variation</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">structure and substrate of the river bed</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">structure of the riparian zone</p> </div> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Chemical and physico-chemical elements supporting the biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">General</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Thermal conditions</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Oxygenation conditions</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Salinity</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Acidification status</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Nutrient conditions</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Specific pollutants</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Pollution by all priority substances identified as being discharged into the body of water</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Pollution by other substances identified as being discharged in significant quantities into the body of water</p> </div> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.1.2. <span class="boldface">Lakes</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition, abundance and biomass of phytoplankton</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition and abundance of other aquatic flora</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition and abundance of benthic invertebrate fauna</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition, abundance and age structure of fish fauna</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Hydromorphological elements supporting the biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Hydrological regime</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">quantity and dynamics of water flow</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">residence time</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">connection to the groundwater body</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Morphological conditions</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">lake depth variation</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">quantity, structure and substrate of the lake bed</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">structure of the lake shore</p> </div> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Chemical and physico-chemical elements supporting the biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">General</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Transparency</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Thermal conditions</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Oxygenation conditions</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Salinity</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Acidification status</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Nutrient conditions</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Specific pollutants</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Pollution by all priority substances identified as being discharged into the body of water</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Pollution by other substances identified as being discharged in significant quantities into the body of water</p> </div> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.1.3. <span class="boldface">Transitional waters</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition, abundance and biomass of phytoplankton</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition and abundance of other aquatic flora</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition and abundance of benthic invertebrate fauna</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition and abundance of fish fauna</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Hydro-morphological elements supporting the biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Morphological conditions</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">depth variation</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">quantity, structure and substrate of the bed</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">structure of the intertidal zone</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Tidal regime</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">freshwater flow</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">wave exposure</p> </div> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Chemical and physico-chemical elements supporting the biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">General</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Transparency</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Thermal conditions</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Oxygenation conditions</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Salinity</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Nutrient conditions</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Specific pollutants</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Pollution by all priority substances identified as being discharged into the body of water</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Pollution by other substances identified as being discharged in significant quantities into the body of water</p> </div> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.1.4. <span class="boldface">Coastal waters</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition, abundance and biomass of phytoplankton</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition and abundance of other aquatic flora</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Composition and abundance of benthic invertebrate fauna</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Hydromorphological elements supporting the biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Morphological conditions</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">depth variation</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">structure and substrate of the coastal bed</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">structure of the intertidal zone</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Tidal regime</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">direction of dominant currents</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">wave exposure</p> </div> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Chemical and physico-chemical elements supporting the biological elements</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">General</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Transparency</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Thermal conditions</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Oxygenation conditions</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Salinity</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Nutrient conditions</p> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Specific pollutants</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Pollution by all priority substances identified as being discharged into the body of water</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; "> <p class="norm">Pollution by other substances identified as being discharged in significant quantities into the body of water</p> </div> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.1.5. <span class="boldface">Artificial and heavily modified surface water bodies</span> </p> <p class="norm">The quality elements applicable to artificial and heavily modified surface water bodies shall be those applicable to whichever of the four natural surface water categories above most closely resembles the heavily modified or artificial water body concerned.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2. <span class="boldface">Normative definitions of ecological status classifications</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">Table 1.2. <span class="boldface">General definition for rivers, lakes, transitional waters and coastal waters</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="1%" span="1"/> <col width="47%" span="1"/> <col width="23%" span="1"/> <col width="30%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">General</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are no, or only very minor, anthropogenic alterations to the values of the physico-chemical and hydromorphological quality elements for the surface water body type from those normally associated with that type under undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The values of the biological quality elements for the surface water body reflect those normally associated with that type under undisturbed conditions, and show no, or only very minor, evidence of distortion.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">These are the type-specific conditions and communities.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The values of the biological quality elements for the surface water body type show low levels of distortion resulting from human activity, but deviate only slightly from those normally associated with the surface water body type under undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The values of the biological quality elements for the surface water body type deviate moderately from those normally associated with the surface water body type under undisturbed conditions. The values show moderate signs of distortion resulting from human activity and are significantly more disturbed than under conditions of good status.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="norm">Waters achieving a status below moderate shall be classified as poor or bad.</p> <p class="norm">Waters showing evidence of major alterations to the values of the biological quality elements for the surface water body type and in which the relevant biological communities deviate substantially from those normally associated with the surface water body type under undisturbed conditions, shall be classified as poor.</p> <p class="norm">Waters showing evidence of severe alterations to the values of the biological quality elements for the surface water body type and in which large portions of the relevant biological communities normally associated with the surface water body type under undisturbed conditions are absent, shall be classified as bad.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2.1. <span class="boldface">Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in rivers</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Biological quality elements</p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="2%" span="1"/> <col width="31%" span="1"/> <col width="37%" span="1"/> <col width="30%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Phytoplankton</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The taxonomic composition of phytoplankton corresponds totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The average phytoplankton abundance is wholly consistent with the type-specific physico-chemical conditions and is not such as to significantly alter the type-specific transparency conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Planktonic blooms occur at a frequency and intensity which is consistent with the type-specific physico-chemical conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in the composition and abundance of planktonic taxa compared to the type-specific communities. Such changes do not indicate any accelerated growth of algae resulting in undesirable disturbances to the balance of organisms present in the water body or to the physico-chemical quality of the water or sediment.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">A slight increase in the frequency and intensity of the type-specific planktonic blooms may occur.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition of planktonic taxa differs moderately from the type-specific communities.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Abundance is moderately disturbed and may be such as to produce a significant undesirable disturbance in the values of other biological and physico-chemical quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">A moderate increase in the frequency and intensity of planktonic blooms may occur. Persistent blooms may occur during summer months.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Macrophytes and phytobenthos</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The taxonomic composition corresponds totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">There are no detectable changes in the average macrophytic and the average phytobenthic abundance.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in the composition and abundance of macrophytic and phytobenthic taxa compared to the type-specific communities. Such changes do not indicate any accelerated growth of phytobenthos or higher forms of plant life resulting in undesirable disturbances to the balance of organisms present in the water body or to the physico-chemical quality of the water or sediment.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The phytobenthic community is not adversely affected by bacterial tufts and coats present due to anthropogenic activity.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition of macrophytic and phytobenthic taxa differs moderately from the type-specific community and is significantly more distorted than at good status.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate changes in the average macrophytic and the average phytobenthic abundance are evident.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The phytobenthic community may be interfered with and, in some areas, displaced by bacterial tufts and coats present as a result of anthropogenic activities.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Benthic invertebrate fauna</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The taxonomic composition and abundance correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The ratio of disturbance sensitive taxa to insensitive taxa shows no signs of alteration from undisturbed levels.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of diversity of invertebrate taxa shows no sign of alteration from undisturbed levels.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in the composition and abundance of invertebrate taxa from the type-specific communities.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The ratio of disturbance-sensitive taxa to insensitive taxa shows slight alteration from type-specific levels.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of diversity of invertebrate taxa shows slight signs of alteration from type-specific levels.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition and abundance of invertebrate taxa differ moderately from the type-specific communities.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Major taxonomic groups of the type-specific community are absent.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The ratio of disturbance-sensitive taxa to insensitive taxa, and the level of diversity, are substantially lower than the type-specific level and significantly lower than for good status.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Fish fauna</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Species composition and abundance correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">All the type-specific disturbance-sensitive species are present.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The age structures of the fish communities show little sign of anthropogenic disturbance and are not indicative of a failure in the reproduction or development of any particular species.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in species composition and abundance from the type-specific communities attributable to anthropogenic impacts on physico-chemical and hydromorphological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The age structures of the fish communities show signs of disturbance attributable to anthropogenic impacts on physico-chemical or hydromorphological quality elements, and, in a few instances, are indicative of a failure in the reproduction or development of a particular species, to the extent that some age classes may be missing.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition and abundance of fish species differ moderately from the type-specific communities attributable to anthropogenic impacts on physico-chemical or hydromorphological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The age structure of the fish communities shows major signs of anthropogenic disturbance, to the extent that a moderate proportion of the type specific species are absent or of very low abundance.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Hydromorphological quality elements</p> <table width="640" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="46%" span="1"/> <col width="24%" span="1"/> <col width="24%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Hydrological regime</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The quantity and dynamics of flow, and the resultant connection to groundwaters, reflect totally, or nearly totally, undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">River continuity</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The continuity of the river is not disturbed by anthropogenic activities and allows undisturbed migration of aquatic organisms and sediment transport.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Morphological conditions</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Channel patterns, width and depth variations, flow velocities, substrate conditions and both the structure and condition of the riparian zones correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Physico-chemical quality elements <a href="#E0037" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>)</a> </p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="4%" span="1"/> <col width="17%" span="1"/> <col width="64%" span="1"/> <col width="14%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">General conditions</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The values of the physico-chemical elements correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient concentrations remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Levels of salinity, pH, oxygen balance, acid neutralising capacity and temperature do not show signs of anthropogenic disturbance and remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Temperature, oxygen balance, pH, acid neutralising capacity and salinity do not reach levels outside the range established so as to ensure the functioning of the type specific ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient concentrations do not exceed the levels established so as to ensure the functioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Specific synthetic pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations close to zero and at least below the limits of detection of the most advanced analytical techniques in general use.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in accordance with the procedure detailed in section 1.2.6 without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Specific non-synthetic pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions (background levels = bgl).</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in accordance with the procedure detailed in section 1.2.6 <a href="#E0038" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">2</span>)</a> without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" rowspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0037" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>) </a>The following abbreviations are used: bgl = background level, EQS = environmental quality standard.</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0038" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">2</span>) </a>Application of the standards derived under this protocol shall not require reduction of pollutant concentrations below background levels: (EQS >bgl).</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2.2. <span class="boldface">Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in lakes</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Biological quality elements</p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="2%" span="1"/> <col width="30%" span="1"/> <col width="36%" span="1"/> <col width="32%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Phytoplankton</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The taxonomic composition and abundance of phytoplankton correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The average phytoplankton biomass is consistent with the type-specific physico-chemical conditions and is not such as to significantly alter the type-specific transparency conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Planktonic blooms occur at a frequency and intensity which is consistent with the type specific physico-chemical conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in the composition and abundance of planktonic taxa compared to the type-specific communities. Such changes do not indicate any accelerated growth of algae resulting in undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water body or to the physico-chemical quality of the water or sediment.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">A slight increase in the frequency and intensity of the type specific planktonic blooms may occur.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition and abundance of planktonic taxa differ moderately from the type-specific communities.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Biomass is moderately disturbed and may be such as to produce a significant undesirable disturbance in the condition of other biological quality elements and the physico-chemical quality of the water or sediment.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">A moderate increase in the frequency and intensity of planktonic blooms may occur. Persistent blooms may occur during summer months.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Macrophytes and phytobenthos</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The taxonomic composition corresponds totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">There are no detectable changes in the average macrophytic and the average phytobenthic abundance.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in the composition and abundance of macrophytic and phytobenthic taxa compared to the type-specific communities. Such changes do not indicate any accelerated growth of phytobenthos or higher forms of plant life resulting in undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water body or to the physico-chemical quality of the water.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The phytobenthic community is not adversely affected by bacterial tufts and coats present due to anthropogenic activity.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition of macrophytic and phytobenthic taxa differ moderately from the type-specific communities and are significantly more distorted than those observed at good quality.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate changes in the average macrophytic and the average phytobenthic abundance are evident.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The phytobenthic community may be interfered with, and, in some areas, displaced by bacterial tufts and coats present as a result of anthropogenic activities.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Benthic invertebrate fauna</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The taxonomic composition and abundance correspond totally or nearly totally to the undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The ratio of disturbance sensitive taxa to insensitive taxa shows no signs of alteration from undisturbed levels.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of diversity of invertebrate taxa shows no sign of alteration from undisturbed levels.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in the composition and abundance of invertebrate taxa compared to the type-specific communities.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The ratio of disturbance sensitive taxa to insensitive taxa shows slight signs of alteration from type-specific levels.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of diversity of invertebrate taxa shows slight signs of alteration from type-specific levels.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition and abundance of invertebrate taxa differ moderately from the type-specific conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Major taxonomic groups of the type-specific community are absent.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The ratio of disturbance sensitive to insensitive taxa, and the level of diversity, are substantially lower than the type-specific level and significantly lower than for good status.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Fish fauna</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Species composition and abundance correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">All the type-specific sensitive species are present.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The age structures of the fish communities show little sign of anthropogenic disturbance and are not indicative of a failure in the reproduction or development of a particular species.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in species composition and abundance from the type-specific communities attributable to anthropogenic impacts on physico-chemical or hydromorphological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The age structures of the fish communities show signs of disturbance attributable to anthropogenic impacts on physico-chemical or hydromorphological quality elements, and, in a few instances, are indicative of a failure in the reproduction or development of a particular species, to the extent that some age classes may be missing.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition and abundance of fish species differ moderately from the type-specific communities attributable to anthropogenic impacts on physico-chemical or hydromorphological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The age structure of the fish communities shows major signs of disturbance, attributable to anthropogenic impacts on physico-chemical or hydromorphological quality elements, to the extent that a moderate proportion of the type specific species are absent or of very low abundance.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Hydromorphological quality elements</p> <table width="640" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="6%" span="1"/> <col width="43%" span="1"/> <col width="25%" span="1"/> <col width="25%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Hydrological regime</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The quantity and dynamics of flow, level, residence time, and the resultant connection to groundwaters, reflect totally or nearly totally undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Morphological conditions</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Lake depth variation, quantity and structure of the substrate, and both the structure and condition of the lake shore zone correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Physico-chemical quality elements <a href="#E0039" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>)</a> </p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="4%" span="1"/> <col width="17%" span="1"/> <col width="64%" span="1"/> <col width="14%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">General conditions</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The values of physico-chemical elements correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient concentrations remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Levels of salinity, pH, oxygen balance, acid neutralising capacity, transparency and temperature do not show signs of anthropogenic disturbance and remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Temperature, oxygen balance, pH, acid neutralising capacity, transparency and salinity do not reach levels outside the range established so as to ensure the functioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient concentrations do not exceed the levels established so as to ensure the functioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Specific synthetic pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations close to zero and at least below the limits of detection of the most advanced analytical techniques in general use.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in accordance with the procedure detailed in section 1.2.6 without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Specific non-synthetic pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions (background levels = bgl).</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in accordance with the procedure detailed in section 1.2.6 <a href="#E0040" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">2</span>)</a> without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" rowspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0039" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>) </a>The following abbreviations are used: bgl = background level, EQS = environmental quality standard.</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0040" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">2</span>) </a>Application of the standards derived under this protocol shall not require reduction of pollutant concentrations below background levels: (EQS >bgl).</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2.3. <span class="boldface">Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in transitional waters</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Biological quality elements</p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="3%" span="1"/> <col width="30%" span="1"/> <col width="29%" span="1"/> <col width="37%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Phytoplankton</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition and abundance of the phytoplanktonic taxa are consistent with undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The average phytoplankton biomass is consistent with the type-specific physico-chemical conditions and is not such as to significantly alter the type-specific transparency conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Planktonic blooms occur at a frequency and intensity which is consistent with the type specific physico-chemical conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in the composition and abundance of phytoplanktonic taxa.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in biomass compared to the type-specific conditions. Such changes do not indicate any accelerated growth of algae resulting in undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water body or to the physico-chemical quality of the water.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">A slight increase in the frequency and intensity of the type specific planktonic blooms may occur.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition and abundance of phytoplanktonic taxa differ moderately from type-specific conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Biomass is moderately disturbed and may be such as to produce a significant undesirable disturbance in the condition of other biological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">A moderate increase in the frequency and intensity of planktonic blooms may occur. Persistent blooms may occur during summer months.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Macroalgae</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition of macroalgal taxa is consistent with undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">There are no detectable changes in macroalgal cover due to anthropogenic activities.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in the composition and abundance of macroalgal taxa compared to the type-specific communities. Such changes do not indicate any accelerated growth of phytobenthos or higher forms of plant life resulting in undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water body or to the physico-chemical quality of the water.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition of macroalgal taxa differs moderately from type-specific conditions and is significantly more distorted than at good quality.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate changes in the average macroalgal abundance are evident and may be such as to result in an undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water body.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Angiosperms</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The taxonomic composition corresponds totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">There are no detectable changes in angiosperm abundance due to anthropogenic activities.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in the composition of angiosperm taxa compared to the type-specific communities.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Angiosperm abundance shows slight signs of disturbance.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition of the angiosperm taxa differs moderately from the type-specific communities and is significantly more distorted than at good quality.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">There are moderate distortions in the abundance of angiosperm taxa.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Benthic invertebrate fauna</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate taxa is within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">All the disturbance-sensitive taxa associated with undisturbed conditions are present.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate taxa is slightly outside the range associated with the type-specific conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Most of the sensitive taxa of the type-specific communities are present.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate taxa is moderately outside the range associated with the type-specific conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Taxa indicative of pollution are present.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Many of the sensitive taxa of the type-specific communities are absent.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Fish fauna</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Species composition and abundance is consistent with undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The abundance of the disturbance-sensitive species shows slight signs of distortion from type-specific conditions attributable to anthropogenic impacts on physico-chemical or hydromorphological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">A moderate proportion of the type-specific disturbance-sensitive species are absent as a result of anthropogenic impacts on physicochemical or hydromorphological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Hydromorphological quality elements</p> <table width="640" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="6%" span="1"/> <col width="40%" span="1"/> <col width="27%" span="1"/> <col width="27%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Tidal regime</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The freshwater flow regime corresponds totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Morphological conditions</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Depth variations, substrate conditions, and both the structure and condition of the intertidal zones correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Physico-chemical quality elements <a href="#E0041" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>)</a> </p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="18%" span="1"/> <col width="62%" span="1"/> <col width="15%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">General conditions</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Physico-chemical elements correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient concentrations remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Temperature, oxygen balance and transparency do not show signs of anthropogenic disturbance and remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Temperature, oxygenation conditions and transparency do not reach levels outside the ranges established so as to ensure the functioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient concentrations do not exceed the levels established so as to ensure the functioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Specific synthetic pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations close to zero and at least below the limits of detection of the most advanced analytical techniques in general use.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in accordance with the procedure detailed in section 1.2.6 without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Specific non-synthetic pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions (background levels = bgl).</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in accordance with the procedure detailed in section 1.2.6 <a href="#E0042" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">2</span>)</a> without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" rowspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0041" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>) </a>The following abbreviations are used: bgl = background level, EQS = environmental quality standard.</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0042" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">2</span>) </a>Application of the standards derived under this protocol shall not require reduction of pollutant concentrations below background levels: (EQS >bgl).</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2.4. <span class="boldface">Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in coastal waters</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Biological quality elements</p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="2%" span="1"/> <col width="35%" span="1"/> <col width="38%" span="1"/> <col width="26%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Phytoplankton</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition and abundance of phytoplanktonic taxa are consistent with undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The average phytoplankton biomass is consistent with the type-specific physico-chemical conditions and is not such as to significantly alter the type-specific transparency conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Planktonic blooms occur at a frequency and intensity which is consistent with the type specific physico-chemical conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition and abundance of phytoplanktonic taxa show slight signs of disturbance.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in biomass compared to type-specific conditions. Such changes do not indicate any accelerated growth of algae resulting in undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water body or to the quality of the water.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">A slight increase in the frequency and intensity of the type-specific planktonic blooms may occur.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The composition and abundance of planktonic taxa show signs of moderate disturbance.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Algal biomass is substantially outside the range associated with type-specific conditions, and is such as to impact upon other biological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">A moderate increase in the frequency and intensity of planktonic blooms may occur. Persistent blooms may occur during summer months.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Macroalgae and angiosperms</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">All disturbance-sensitive macroalgal and angiosperm taxa associated with undisturbed conditions are present.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The levels of macroalgal cover and angiosperm abundance are consistent with undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Most disturbance-sensitive macroalgal and angiosperm taxa associated with undisturbed conditions are present.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of macroalgal cover and angiosperm abundance show slight signs of disturbance.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">A moderate number of the disturbance-sensitive macroalgal and angiosperm taxa associated with undisturbed conditions are absent.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Macroalgal cover and angiosperm abundance is moderately disturbed and may be such as to result in an undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms present in the water body.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Benthic invertebrate fauna</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate taxa is within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">All the disturbance-sensitive taxa associated with undisturbed conditions are present.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate taxa is slightly outside the range associated with the type-specific conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Most of the sensitive taxa of the type-specific communities are present.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate taxa is moderately outside the range associated with the type-specific conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Taxa indicative of pollution are present.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Many of the sensitive taxa of the type-specific communities are absent.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Hydromorphological quality elements</p> <table width="640" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="6%" span="1"/> <col width="44%" span="1"/> <col width="25%" span="1"/> <col width="25%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Tidal regime</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The freshwater flow regime and the direction and speed of dominant currents correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Morphological conditions</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The depth variation, structure and substrate of the coastal bed, and both the structure and condition of the inter-tidal zones correspond totally or nearly totally to the undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table">Physico-chemical quality elements <a href="#E0043" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>)</a> </p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="18%" span="1"/> <col width="62%" span="1"/> <col width="15%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">General conditions</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The physico-chemical elements correspond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient concentrations remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Temperature, oxygen balance and transparency do not show signs of anthropogenic disturbance and remain within the ranges normally associated with undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Temperature, oxygenation conditions and transparency do not reach levels outside the ranges established so as to ensure the functioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient concentrations do not exceed the levels established so as to ensure the functioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Specific synthetic pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations close to zero and at least below the limits of detection of the most advanced analytical techniques in general use.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in accordance with the procedure detailed in section 1.2.6 without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Specific non-synthetic pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations remain within the range normally associated with undisturbed conditions (background levels = bgl).</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in accordance with the procedure detailed in section 1.2.6 <a href="#E0044" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">2</span>)</a> without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" rowspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0043" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>) </a>The following abbreviations are used: bgl = background level, EQS = environmental quality standard.</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0044" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">2</span>) </a>Application of the standards derived under this protocol shall not require reduction of pollutant concentrations below background levels: (EQS >bgl).</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2.5. <span class="boldface">Definitions for maximum, good and moderate ecological potential for heavily modified or artificial water bodies</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="2%" span="1"/> <col width="36%" span="1"/> <col width="45%" span="1"/> <col width="17%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Maximum ecological potential</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good ecological potential</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate ecological potential</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Biological quality elements</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The values of the relevant biological quality elements reflect, as far as possible, those associated with the closest comparable surface water body type, given the physical conditions which result from the artificial or heavily modified characteristics of the water body.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are slight changes in the values of the relevant biological quality elements as compared to the values found at maximum ecological potential.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">There are moderate changes in the values of the relevant biological quality elements as compared to the values found at maximum ecological potential.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">These values are significantly more distorted than those found under good quality.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Hydromorphological elements</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The hydromorphological conditions are consistent with the only impacts on the surface water body being those resulting from the artificial or heavily modified characteristics of the water body once all mitigation measures have been taken to ensure the best approximation to ecological continuum, in particular with respect to migration of fauna and appropriate spawning and breeding grounds.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Physico-chemical elements</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">General conditions</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Physico-chemical elements correspond totally or nearly totally to the undisturbed conditions associated with the surface water body type most closely comparable to the artificial or heavily modified body concerned.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient concentrations remain within the range normally associated with such undisturbed conditions.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">The levels of temperature, oxygen balance and pH are consistent with the those found in the most closely comparable surface water body types under undisturbed conditions.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The values for physico-chemical elements are within the ranges established so as to ensure the functioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Temperature and pH do not reach levels outside the ranges established so as to ensure the functioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient concentrations do not exceed the levels established so as to ensure the functioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Specific synthetic pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations close to zero and at least below the limits of detection of the most advanced analytical techniques in general use.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in accordance with the procedure detailed in section 1.2.6 without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Specific non-synthetic pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations remain within the range normally associated with the undisturbed conditions found in the surface water body type most closely comparable to the artificial or heavily modified body concerned (background levels = bgl).</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in accordance with the procedure detailed in section 1.2.6 <a href="#E0045" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>)</a> without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified above for the biological quality elements.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" rowspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0045" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>) </a>Application of the standards derived under this protocol shall not require reduction of pollutant concentrations below background levels.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.2.6. <span class="boldface">Procedure for the setting of chemical quality standards by Member States</span> </p> <p class="norm">In deriving environmental quality standards for pollutants listed in points 1 to 9 of Annex VIII for the protection of aquatic biota, Member States shall act in accordance with the following provisions. Standards may be set for water, sediment or biota.</p> <p class="norm">Where possible, both acute and chronic data shall be obtained for the taxa set out below which are relevant for the water body type concerned as well as any other aquatic taxa for which data are available. The ‘base set’ of taxa are:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>algae and/or macrophytes</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>daphnia or representative organisms for saline waters</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>fish.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Setting the environmental quality standard</p> <p class="norm">The following procedure applies to the setting of a maximum annual average concentration:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Member States shall set appropriate safety factors in each case consistent with the nature and quality of the available data and the guidance given in section 3.3.1 of Part II of</p> <p class="list">‘Technical guidance document in support of Commission Directive 93/67/EEC on risk assessment for new notified substances and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 on risk assessment for existing substances’</p> <p class="list">and the safety factors set out in the table below:</p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="87%" span="1"/> <col width="13%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Safety factor</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">At least one acute L(E)C<span class="subscript">50</span> from each of three trophic levels of the base set</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">1 000 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">One chronic NOEC (either fish or daphnia or a representative organism for saline waters)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">100 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Two chronic NOECs from species representing two trophic levels (fish and/or daphnia or a representative organism for saline waters and/or algae)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">50 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Chronic NOECs from at least three species (normally fish, daphnia or a representative organism for saline waters and algae) representing three trophic levels</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">10 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Other cases, including field data or model ecosystems, which allow more precise safety factors to be calculated and applied</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Case-by-case assessment</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>where data on persistence and bioaccumulation are available, these shall be taken into account in deriving the final value of the environmental quality standard;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>the standard thus derived should be compared with any evidence from field studies. Where anomalies appear, the derivation shall be reviewed to allow a more precise safety factor to be calculated;</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>the standard derived shall be subject to peer review and public consultation including to allow a more precise safety factor to be calculated.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.3. <span class="boldface">Monitoring of ecological status and chemical status for surface waters</span> </p> <p class="norm">The surface water monitoring network shall be established in accordance with the requirements of Article 8. The monitoring network shall be designed so as to provide a coherent and comprehensive overview of ecological and chemical status within each river basin and shall permit classification of water bodies into five classes consistent with the normative definitions in section 1.2. Member States shall provide a map or maps showing the surface water monitoring network in the river basin management plan.</p> <p class="norm">On the basis of the characterisation and impact assessment carried out in accordance with Article 5 and Annex II, Member States shall for each period to which a river basin management plan applies, establish a surveillance monitoring programme and an operational monitoring programme. Member States may also need in some cases to establish programmes of investigative monitoring.</p> <p class="norm">Member States shall monitor parameters which are indicative of the status of each relevant quality element. In selecting parameters for biological quality elements Member States shall identify the appropriate taxonomic level required to achieve adequate confidence and precision in the classification of the quality elements. Estimates of the level of confidence and precision of the results provided by the monitoring programmes shall be given in the plan.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.3.1. <span class="boldface">Design of surveillance monitoring</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Objective</p> <p class="norm">Member States shall establish surveillance monitoring programmes to provide information for:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>supplementing and validating the impact assessment procedure detailed in Annex II,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the efficient and effective design of future monitoring programmes,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the assessment of long-term changes in natural conditions, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the assessment of long-term changes resulting from widespread anthropogenic activity.</p> </div> <p class="norm">The results of such monitoring shall be reviewed and used, in combination with the impact assessment procedure described in Annex II, to determine requirements for monitoring programmes in the current and subsequent river basin management plans.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Selection of monitoring points</p> <p class="norm">Surveillance monitoring shall be carried out of sufficient surface water bodies to provide an assessment of the overall surface water status within each catchment or subcatchments within the river basin district. In selecting these bodies Member States shall ensure that, where appropriate, monitoring is carried out at points where:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the rate of water flow is significant within the river basin district as a whole; including points on large rivers where the catchment area is greater than 2 500 km<span class="superscript">2</span>,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the volume of water present is significant within the river basin district, including large lakes and reservoirs,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>significant bodies of water cross a Member State boundary,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>sites are identified under the Information Exchange Decision 77/795/EEC, and</p> </div> <p class="norm">at such other sites as are required to estimate the pollutant load which is transferred across Member State boundaries, and which is transferred into the marine environment.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Selection of quality elements</p> <p class="norm">Surveillance monitoring shall be carried out for each monitoring site for a period of one year during the period covered by a river basin management plan for:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>parameters indicative of all biological quality elements,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>parameters indicative of all hydromorphological quality elements,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>parameters indicative of all general physico-chemical quality elements,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>priority list pollutants which are discharged into the river basin or sub-basin, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>other pollutants discharged in significant quantities in the river basin or sub-basin,</p> </div> <p class="norm">unless the previous surveillance monitoring exercise showed that the body concerned reached good status and there is no evidence from the review of impact of human activity in Annex II that the impacts on the body have changed. In these cases, surveillance monitoring shall be carried out once every three river basin management plans.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.3.2. <span class="boldface">Design of operational monitoring</span> </p> <p class="norm">Operational monitoring shall be undertaken in order to:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>establish the status of those bodies identified as being at risk of failing to meet their environmental objectives, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>assess any changes in the status of such bodies resulting from the programmes of measures.</p> </div> <p class="norm">The programme may be amended during the period of the river basin management plan in the light of information obtained as part of the requirements of Annex II or as part of this Annex, in particular to allow a reduction in frequency where an impact is found not to be significant or the relevant pressure is removed.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Selection of monitoring sites</p> <p class="norm">Operational monitoring shall be carried out for all those bodies of water which on the basis of either the impact assessment carried out in accordance with Annex II or surveillance monitoring are identified as being at risk of failing to meet their environmental objectives under Article 4 and for those bodies of water into which priority list substances are discharged. Monitoring points shall be selected for priority list substances as specified in the legislation laying down the relevant environmental quality standard. In all other cases, including for priority list substances where no specific guidance is given in such legislation, monitoring points shall be selected as follows:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for bodies at risk from significant point source pressures, sufficient monitoring points within each body in order to assess the magnitude and impact of the point source. Where a body is subject to a number of point source pressures monitoring points may be selected to assess the magnitude and impact of these pressures as a whole,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for bodies at risk from significant diffuse source pressures, sufficient monitoring points within a selection of the bodies in order to assess the magnitude and impact of the diffuse source pressures. The selection of bodies shall be made such that they are representative of the relative risks of the occurrence of the diffuse source pressures, and of the relative risks of the failure to achieve good surface water status,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for bodies at risk from significant hydromorphological pressure, sufficient monitoring points within a selection of the bodies in order to assess the magnitude and impact of the hydromorphological pressures. The selection of bodies shall be indicative of the overall impact of the hydromorphological pressure to which all the bodies are subject.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Selection of quality elements</p> <p class="norm">In order to assess the magnitude of the pressure to which bodies of surface water are subject Member States shall monitor for those quality elements which are indicative of the pressures to which the body or bodies are subject. In order to assess the impact of these pressures, Member States shall monitor as relevant:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>parameters indicative of the biological quality element, or elements, most sensitive to the pressures to which the water bodies are subject,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>all priority substances discharged, and other pollutants discharged in significant quantities,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>parameters indicative of the hydromorphological quality element most sensitive to the pressure identified.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.3.3. <span class="boldface">Design of investigative monitoring</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Objective</p> <p class="norm">Investigative monitoring shall be carried out:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>where the reason for any exceedances is unknown,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>where surveillance monitoring indicates that the objectives set out in Article 4 for a body of water are not likely to be achieved and operational monitoring has not already been established, in order to ascertain the causes of a water body or water bodies failing to achieve the environmental objectives, or</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>to ascertain the magnitude and impacts of accidental pollution,</p> </div> <p class="norm">and shall inform the establishment of a programme of measures for the achievement of the environmental objectives and specific measures necessary to remedy the effects of accidental pollution.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.3.4. <span class="boldface">Frequency of monitoring</span> </p> <p class="norm">For the surveillance monitoring period, the frequencies for monitoring parameters indicative of physico-chemical quality elements given below should be applied unless greater intervals would be justified on the basis of technical knowledge and expert judgement. For biological or hydromorphological quality elements monitoring shall be carried out at least once during the surveillance monitoring period.</p> <p class="norm">For operational monitoring, the frequency of monitoring required for any parameter shall be determined by Member States so as to provide sufficient data for a reliable assessment of the status of the relevant quality element. As a guideline, monitoring should take place at intervals not exceeding those shown in the table below unless greater intervals would be justified on the basis of technical knowledge and expert judgement.</p> <p class="norm">Frequencies shall be chosen so as to achieve an acceptable level of confidence and precision. Estimates of the confidence and precision attained by the monitoring system used shall be stated in the river basin management plan.</p> <p class="norm">Monitoring frequencies shall be selected which take account of the variability in parameters resulting from both natural and anthropogenic conditions. The times at which monitoring is undertaken shall be selected so as to minimise the impact of seasonal variation on the results, and thus ensure that the results reflect changesin the water body as a result of changes due to anthropogenic pressure. Additional monitoring during different seasons of the same year shall be carried out, where necessary, to achieve this objective.</p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="38%" span="1"/> <col width="15%" span="1"/> <col width="15%" span="1"/> <col width="15%" span="1"/> <col width="15%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Quality element</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Rivers</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Lakes</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Transitional</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Coastal</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" rowspan="1"> <p class="title-blk">Biological</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Phytoplankton</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">6 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">6 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">6 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">6 months</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Other aquatic flora</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Macro invertebrates</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Fish</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" rowspan="1"> <p class="title-blk">Hydromorphological</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Continuity</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">6 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Hydrology</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">continuous</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">1 month</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Morphology</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">6 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">6 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">6 years</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">6 years</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" rowspan="1"> <p class="title-blk">Physico-chemical</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Thermal conditions</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Oxygenation</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Salinity</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Nutrient status</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Acidification status</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Other pollutants</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">3 months</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Priority substances</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">1 month</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">1 month</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">1 month</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">1 month</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.3.5. <span class="boldface">Additional monitoring requirements for protected areas</span> </p> <p class="norm">The monitoring programmes required above shall be supplemented in order to fulfil the following requirements:</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Drinking water abstraction points</p> <p class="norm">Bodies of surface water designated in Article 7 which provide more than 100 m<span class="superscript">3</span> a day as an average shall be designated as monitoring sites and shall be subject to such additional monitoring as may be necessary to meet the requirements of that Article. Such bodies shall be monitored for all priority substances discharged and all other substances discharged in significant quantities which could affect the status of the body of water and which are controlled under the provisions of the Drinking Water Directive. Monitoring shall be carried out in accordance with the frequencies set out below:</p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="60%" span="1"/> <col width="40%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Community served</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Frequency</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">< 10 000 </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">4 per year</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">10 000 to 30 000 </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">8 per year</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">> 30 000 </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">12 per year.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Habitat and species protection areas</p> <p class="norm">Bodies of water forming these areas shall be included within the operational monitoring programme referred to above where, on the basis of the impact assessment and the surveillance monitoring, they are identified as being at risk of failing to meet their environmental objectives under Article 4. Monitoring shall be carried out to assess the magnitude and impact of all relevant significant pressures on these bodies and, where necessary, to assess changes in the status of such bodies resulting from the programmes of measures. Monitoring shall continue until the areas satisfy the water-related requirements of the legislation under which they are designated and meet their objectives under Article 4.</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32014L0101" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32014L0101: REPLACED" shape="rect">▼M7</a> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.3.6. <span class="boldface"> <span class="expanded">Standards for monitoring of quality elements</span> </span> </p> <p class="norm">Methods used for the monitoring of type parameters shall conform to the international standards listed below in so far as they cover monitoring, or to such other national or international standards which will ensure the provision of data of an equivalent scientific quality and comparability.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4"> <span class="italics">Standards for sampling of biological quality elements</span> </p> <p class="norm">Generic methods for use with the specific methods given in the standards relating to the following biological quality elements:</p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="19%" span="1"/> <col width="81%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN ISO 5667-3:2012</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Sampling — Part 3: Preservation and handling of samples</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4"> <span class="italics">Standards for phytoplankton</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="10%" span="1"/> <col width="90%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 15204:2006</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance standard on the enumeration of phytoplankton using inverted microscopy (Utermöhl technique)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 15972:2011</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance on quantitative and qualitative investigations of marine phytoplankton</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">ISO 10260:1992</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Measurement of biochemical parameters —Spectrometric determination of the chlorophyll-a concentration</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4"> <span class="italics">Standards for macrophyte and phytobenthos</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="9%" span="1"/> <col width="91%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 15460:2007</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance standard for the surveying of macrophytes in lakes</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 14184:2014</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance for the surveying of aquatic macrophytes in running waters</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 15708:2009</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance standard for the surveying, sampling and laboratory analysis of phytobenthos in shallow running water</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 13946:2014</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance for the routine sampling and preparation of benthic diatoms from rivers and lakes</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 14407:2014</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance for the identification and enumeration of benthic diatom samples from rivers and lakes</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4"> <span class="italics">Standards for benthic invertebrate</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="13%" span="1"/> <col width="87%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN ISO 10870:2012</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidelines for the selection of sampling methods and devices for benthic macroinvertebrates in fresh waters</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 15196:2006</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance on sampling and processing of the pupal exuviae of Chironomidae (order Diptera) for ecological assessment</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 16150:2012</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance on pro rata multi-habitat sampling of benthic macro-invertebrates from wadeable rivers</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN ISO 19493:2007</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance on marine biological surveys of hard-substrate communities</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN ISO 16665:2013</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidelines for quantitative sampling and sample processing of marine soft-bottom macro-fauna</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4"> <span class="italics">Standards for fish</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="12%" span="1"/> <col width="88%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 14962:2006</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance on the scope and selection of fish sampling methods</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 14011:2003</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Sampling of fish with electricity</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 15910:2014</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance on the estimation of fish abundance with mobile hydroacoustic methods</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 14757:2005</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Sampling of fish with multi-mesh gillnets</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4"> <span class="italics">Standards for hydromorphological parameters</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="13%" span="1"/> <col width="88%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 14614:2004</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance standard for assessing the hydromorphological features of rivers</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EN 16039:2011</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Water quality — Guidance standard on assessing the hydromorphological features of lakes</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4"> <span class="italics">Standards for physico-chemical parameters</span> </p> <p class="norm">Any relevant CEN/ISO standards</p> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.4. <span class="boldface">Classification and presentation of ecological status</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.4.1. <span class="boldface">Comparability of biological monitoring results</span> </p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Member States shall establish monitoring systems for the purpose of estimating the values of the biological quality elements specified for each surface water category or for heavily modified and artificial bodies of surface water. In applying the procedure set out below to heavily modified or artificial water bodies, references to ecological status should be construed as references to ecological potential. Such systems may utilise particular species or groups of species which are representative of the quality element as a whole.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>In order to ensure comparability of such monitoring systems, the results of the systems operated by each Member State shall be expressed as ecological quality ratios for the purposes of classification of ecological status. These ratios shall represent the relationship between the values of the biological parameters observed for a given body of surface water and the values for these parameters in the reference conditions applicable to that body. The ratio shall be expressed as a numerical value between zero and one, with high ecological status represented by values close to one and bad ecological status by values close to zero.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>Each Member State shall divide the ecological quality ratio scale for their monitoring system for each surface water category into five classes ranging from high to bad ecological status, as defined in Section 1.2, by assigning a numerical value to each of the boundaries between the classes. The value for the boundary between the classes of high and good status, and the value for the boundary between good and moderate status shall be established through the intercalibration exercise described below.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>The Commission shall facilitate this intercalibration exercise in order to ensure that these class boundaries are established consistent with the normative definitions in Section 1.2 and are comparable between Member States.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(v)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>As part of this exercise the Commission shall facilitate an exchange of information between Members States leading to the identification of a range of sites in each ecoregion in the Community; these sites will form an intercalibration network. The network shall consist of sites selected from a range of surface water body types present within each ecoregion. For each surface water body type selected, the network shall consist of at least two sites corresponding to the boundary between the normative definitions of high and good status, and at least two sites corresponding to the boundary between the normative definitions of good and moderate status. The sites shall be selected by expert judgement based on joint inspections and all other available information.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(vi)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>Each Member State monitoring system shall be applied to those sites in the intercalibration network which are both in the ecoregion and of a surface water body type to which the system will be applied pursuant to the requirements of this Directive. The results of this application shall be used to set the numerical values for the relevant class boundaries in each Member State monitoring system.</p> </div> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32008L0032" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32008L0032: REPLACED" shape="rect">▼M2</a> </p> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(vii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>The Commission shall prepare a draft register of sites to form the intercalibration network. The final register of sites shall be established in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 21(2).</p> </div> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <div style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt"> <p class="norm">(viii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>The Commission and Member States shall complete the intercalibration exercise within 18 months of the date on which the finalised register is published.</p> </div> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32008L0032" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32008L0032: REPLACED" shape="rect">▼M2</a> </p> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ix)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>The results of the intercalibration exercise and the values established for the Member State monitoring system classifications in accordance with points (i) to (viii) and designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 21(3) and published within six months of the completion of the intercalibration exercise.</p> </div> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.4.2. <span class="boldface">Presentation of monitoring results and classification of ecological status and ecological potential</span> </p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="40%" span="1"/> <col width="60%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Ecological status classification</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Colour code</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">High</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Blue</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Green</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Yellow</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Poor</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Orange</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Bad</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Red</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="48%" span="1"/> <col width="47%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td rowspan="2" valign="top" style="font-weight: bold" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Ecological potential classification</p> </td> <td colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Colour code</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Artificial Water Bodies</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Heavily Modified</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good and above</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Equal green and light grey stripes</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Equal green and dark grey stripes</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Moderate</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Equal yellow and light grey stripes</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Equal yellow and dark grey stripes</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Poor</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Equal orange and light grey stripes</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Equal orange and dark grey stripes</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Bad</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Equal red and light grey stripes</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Equal red and dark grey stripes</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>Member States shall also indicate, by a black dot on the map, those bodies of water where failure to achieve good status or good ecological potential is due to non-compliance with one or more environmental quality standards which have been established for that body of water in respect of specific synthetic and non-synthetic pollutants (in accordance with the compliance regime established by the Member State).</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">1.4.3. <span class="boldface">Presentation of monitoring results and classification of chemical status</span> </p> <p class="norm">Where a body of water achieves compliance with all the environmental quality standards established in Annex IX, Article 16 and under other relevant Community legislation setting environmental quality standards it shall be recorded as achieving good chemical status. If not, the body shall be recorded as failing to achieve good chemical status.</p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="88%" span="1"/> <col width="12%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Chemical status classification</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Colour code</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Blue</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Failing to achieve good</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Red</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2. <span class="boldface">GROUNDWATER</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.1. <span class="boldface">Groundwater quantitative status</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.1.1. <span class="boldface">Parameter for the classification of quantitative status</span> </p> <p class="norm"> <span class="italics">Groundwater level regime</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.1.2. <span class="boldface">Definition of quantitative status</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="2%" span="1"/> <col width="98%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Elements</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Groundwater level</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The level of groundwater in the groundwater body is such that the available groundwater resource is not exceeded by the long-term annual average rate of abstraction.</p> <p class="tbl-norm">Accordingly, the level of groundwater is not subject to anthropogenic alterations such as would result in:</p> <p class="item-none">— failure to achieve the environmental objectives specified under Article 4 for associated surface waters,</p> <p class="item-none">— any significant diminution in the status of such waters,</p> <p class="item-none">— any significant damage to terrestrial ecosystems which depend directly on the groundwater body,</p> <p class="tbl-norm">and alterations to flow direction resulting from level changes may occur temporarily, or continuously in a spatially limited area, but such reversals do not cause saltwater or other intrusion, and do not indicate a sustained and clearly identified anthropogenically induced trend in flow direction likely to result in such intrusions.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.2. <span class="boldface">Monitoring of groundwater quantitative status</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.2.1. <span class="boldface">Groundwater level monitoring network</span> </p> <p class="norm">The groundwater monitoring network shall be established in accordance with the requirements of Articles 7 and 8. The monitoring network shall be designed so as to provide a reliable assessment of the quantitative status of all groundwater bodies or groups of bodies including assessment of the available groundwater resource. Member States shall provide a map or maps showing the groundwater monitoring network in the river basin management plan.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.2.2. <span class="boldface">Density of monitoring sites</span> </p> <p class="norm">The network shall include sufficient representative monitoring points to estimate the groundwater level in each groundwater body or group of bodies taking into account short and long-term variations in recharge and in particular:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for groundwater bodies identified as being at risk of failing to achieve environmental objectives under Article 4, ensure sufficient density of monitoring points to assess the impact of abstractions and discharges on the groundwater level,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for groundwater bodies within which groundwater flows across a Member State boundary, ensure sufficient monitoring points are provided to estimate the direction and rate of groundwater flow across the Member State boundary.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.2.3. <span class="boldface">Monitoring frequency</span> </p> <p class="norm">The frequency of observations shall be sufficient to allow assessment of the quantitative status of each groundwater body or group of bodies taking into account short and long-term variations in recharge. In particular:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for groundwater bodies identified as being at risk of failing to achieve environmental objectives under Article 4, ensure sufficient frequency of measurement to assess the impact of abstractions and discharges on the groundwater level,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>for groundwater bodies within which groundwater flows across a Member State boundary, ensure sufficient frequency of measurement to estimate the direction and rate of groundwater flow across the Member State boundary.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.2.4. <span class="boldface">Interpretation and presentation of groundwater quantitative status</span> </p> <p class="norm">The results obtained from the monitoring network for a groundwater body or group of bodies shall be used to assess the quantitative status of that body or those bodies. Subject to point 2.5. Member States shall provide a map of the resulting assessment of groundwater quantitative status, colour-coded in accordance with the following regime:</p> <p class="norm">Good : green</p> <p class="norm">Poor : red</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.3. <span class="boldface">Groundwater chemical status</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.3.1. <span class="boldface">Parameters for the determination of groundwater chemical status</span> </p> <p class="norm">Conductivity</p> <p class="norm">Concentrations of pollutants</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.3.2. <span class="boldface">Definition of good groundwater chemical status</span> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <table width="960" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="2%" span="1"/> <col width="98%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Elements</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Good status</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">General</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">The chemical composition of the groundwater body is such that the concentrations of pollutants:</p> <p class="item-none">— as specified below, do not exhibit the effects of saline or other intrusions</p> <p class="item-none">— do not exceed the quality standards applicable under other relevant Community legislation in accordance with Article 17</p> <p class="item-none">— are not such as would result in failure to achieve the environmental objectives specified under Article 4 for associated surface waters nor any significant diminution of the ecological or chemical quality of such bodies nor in any significant damage to terrestrial ecosystems which depend directly on the groundwater body</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Conductivity</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Changes in conductivity are not indicative of saline or other intrusion into the groundwater body</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.4. <span class="boldface">Monitoring of groundwater chemical status</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.4.1. <span class="boldface">Groundwater monitoring network</span> </p> <p class="norm">The groundwater monitoring network shall be established in accordance with the requirements of Articles 7 and 8. The monitoring network shall be designed so as to provide a coherent and comprehensive overview of groundwater chemical status within each river basin and to detect the presence of long-term anthropogenically induced upward trends in pollutants.</p> <p class="norm">On the basis of the characterisation and impact assessment carried out in accordance with Article 5 and Annex II, Member States shall for each period to which a river basin management plan applies, establish a surveillance monitoring programme. The results of this programme shall be used to establish an operational monitoring programme to be applied for the remaining period of the plan.</p> <p class="norm">Estimates of the level of confidence and precision of the results provided by the monitoring programmes shall be given in the plan.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.4.2. <span class="boldface">Surveillance monitoring</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Objective</p> <p class="norm">Surveillance monitoring shall be carried out in order to:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>supplement and validate the impact assessment procedure,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>provide information for use in the assessment of long term trends both as a result of changes in natural conditions and through anthropogenic activity.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Selection of monitoring sites</p> <p class="norm">Sufficient monitoring sites shall be selected for each of the following:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>bodies identified as being at risk following the characterisation exercise undertaken in accordance with Annex II,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>bodies which cross a Member State boundary.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Selection of parameters</p> <p class="norm">The following set of core parameters shall be monitored in all the selected groundwater bodies:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>oxygen content</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>pH value</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>conductivity</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>nitrate</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>ammonium</p> </div> <p class="norm">Bodies which are identified in accordance with Annex II as being at significant risk of failing to achieve good status shall also be monitored for those parameters which are indicative of the impact of these pressures.</p> <p class="norm">Transboundary water bodies shall also be monitored for those parameters which are relevant for the protection of all of the uses supported by the groundwater flow.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.4.3. <span class="boldface">Operational monitoring</span> </p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Objective</p> <p class="norm">Operational monitoring shall be undertaken in the periods between surveillance monitoring programmes in order to:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>establish the chemical status of all groundwater bodies or groups of bodies determined as being at risk,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>establish the presence of any long term anthropogenically induced upward trend in the concentration of any pollutant.</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Selection of monitoring sites</p> <p class="norm">Operational monitoring shall be carried out for all those groundwater bodies or groups of bodies which on the basis of both the impact assessment carried out in accordance with Annex II and surveillance monitoring are identified as being at risk of failing to meet objectives under Article 4. The selection of monitoring sites shall also reflect an assessment of how representative monitoring data from that site is of the quality of the relevant groundwater body or bodies.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-4">Frequency of monitoring</p> <p class="norm">Operational monitoring shall be carried out for the periods between surveillance monitoring programmes at a frequency sufficient to detect the impacts of relevant pressures but at a minimum of once per annum.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.4.4. <span class="boldface">Identification of trends in pollutants</span> </p> <p class="norm">Member States shall use data from both surveillance and operational monitoring in the identification of long term anthropogenically induced upward trends in pollutant concentrations and the reversal of such trends. The base year or period from which trend identification is to be calculated shall be identified. The calculation of trends shall be undertaken for a body or, where appropriate, group of bodies of groundwater. Reversal of a trend shall be demonstrated statistically and the level of confidence associated with the identification stated.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.4.5. <span class="boldface">Interpretation and presentation of groundwater chemical status</span> </p> <p class="norm">In assessing status, the results of individual monitoring points within a groundwater body shall be aggregated for the body as a whole. Without prejudice to the Directives concerned, for good status to be achieved for a groundwater body, for those chemical parameters for which environmental quality standards have been set in Community legislation:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>the mean value of the results of monitoring at each point in the groundwater body or group of bodies shall be calculated, and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>in accordance with Article 17 these mean values shall be used to demonstrate compliance with good groundwater chemical status.</p> </div> <p class="norm">Subject to point 2.5, Member States shall provide a map of groundwater chemical status, colour-coded as indicated below:</p> <p class="norm">Good : green</p> <p class="norm">Poor : red</p> <p class="norm">Member States shall also indicate by a black dot on the map, those groundwater bodies which are subject to a significant and sustained upward trend in the concentrations of any pollutant resulting from the impact of human activity. Reversal of a trend shall be indicated by a blue dot on the map.</p> <p class="norm">These maps shall be included in the river basin management plan.</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">2.5. <span class="boldface">Presentation of Groundwater Status</span> </p> <p class="norm">Member States shall provide in the river basin management plan a map showing for each groundwater body or groups of groundwater bodies both the quantitative status and the chemical status of that body or group of bodies, colour-coded in accordance with the requirements of points 2.2.4 and 2.4.5. Member States may choose not to provide separate maps under points 2.2.4 and 2.4.5 but shall in that case also provide an indication in accordance with the requirements of point 2.4.5 on the map required under this point, of those bodies which are subject to a significant and sustained upward trend in the concentration of any pollutant or any reversal in such a trend.</p> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX VI</p> <p class="title-annex-2">LISTS OF MEASURES TO BE INCLUDED WITHIN THE PROGRAMMES OF MEASURES</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">PART A</p> <p class="norm">Measures required under the following Directives:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>The Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>The Birds Directive (79/409/EEC) (<a href="#E0046" id="src.E0046" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">37</span> </a>);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>The Drinking Water Directive (80/778/EEC) as amended by Directive (98/83/EC);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>The Major Accidents (Seveso) Directive (96/82/EC) (<a href="#E0047" id="src.E0047" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">38</span> </a>);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(v)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>The Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (85/337/EEC) (<a href="#E0048" id="src.E0048" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">39</span> </a>);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(vi)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>The Sewage Sludge Directive (86/278/EEC) (<a href="#E0049" id="src.E0049" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">40</span> </a>);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(vii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>The Urban Waste-water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt"> <p class="norm">(viii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>The Plant Protection Products Directive (91/414/EEC);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ix)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>The Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(x)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>The Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) (<a href="#E0050" id="src.E0050" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">41</span> </a>);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(xi)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>The Integrated Pollution Prevention Control Directive (96/61/EC).</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">PART B</p> <p class="norm">The following is a non-exclusive list of supplementary measures which Member States within each river basin district may choose to adopt as part of the programme of measures required under Article 11(4):</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>legislative instruments</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>administrative instruments</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>economic or fiscal instruments</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>negotiated environmental agreements</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(v)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>emission controls</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(vi)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>codes of good practice</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(vii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>recreation and restoration of wetlands areas</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt"> <p class="norm">(viii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>abstraction controls</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ix)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>demand management measures, <span class="italics">inter alia</span>, promotion of adapted agricultural production such as low water requiring crops in areas affected by drought</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(x)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>efficiency and reuse measures, <span class="italics">inter alia</span>, promotion of water-efficient technologies in industry and water-saving irrigation techniques</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(xi)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>construction projects</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(xii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>desalination plants</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt"> <p class="norm">(xiii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>rehabilitation projects</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(xiv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>artificial recharge of aquifers</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(xv)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>educational projects</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(xvi)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>research, development and demonstration projects</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 48pt; text-indent: -48pt"> <p class="norm">(xvii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>other relevant measures</p> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX VII</p> <p class="title-annex-2">RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT PLANS</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">A.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">River basin management plans shall cover the following elements:</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a general description of the characteristics of the river basin district required under Article 5 and Annex II. This shall include:</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">1.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">for surface waters:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>mapping of the location and boundaries of water bodies,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>mapping of the ecoregions and surface water body types within the river basin,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>identification of reference conditions for the surface water body types;</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">1.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">for groundwaters:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>mapping of the location and boundaries of groundwater bodies;</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of significant pressures and impact of human activity on the status of surface water and groundwater, including:</p> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>estimation of point source pollution,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>estimation of diffuse source pollution, including a summary of land use,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>estimation of pressures on the quantitative status of water including abstractions,</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 12pt; text-indent: -12pt; "> <p class="norm">—<span style="word-spacing: 0"> </span>analysis of other impacts of human activity on the status of water;</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">identification and mapping of protected areas as required by Article 6 and Annex IV;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a map of the monitoring networks established for the purposes of Article 8 and Annex V, and a presentation in map form of the results of the monitoring programmes carried out under those provisions for the status of:</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">4.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">surface water (ecological and chemical);</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">4.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">groundwater (chemical and quantitative);</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">4.3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">protected areas;</p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">5.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a list of the environmental objectives established under Article 4 for surface waters, groundwaters and protected areas, including in particular identification of instances where use has been made of Article 4(4), (5), (6) and (7), and the associated information required under that Article;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">6.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of the economic analysis of water use as required by Article 5 and Annex III;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of the programme or programmes of measures adopted under Article 11, including the ways in which the objectives established under Article 4 are thereby to be achieved;</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of the measures required to implement Community legislation for the protection of water;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a report on the practical steps and measures taken to apply the principle of recovery of the costs of water use in accordance with Article 9;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of the measures taken to meet the requirements of Article 7;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of the controls on abstraction and impoundment of water, including reference to the registers and identifications of the cases where exemptions have been made under Article 11(3)(e);</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.5.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of the controls adopted for point source discharges and other activities with an impact on the status of water in accordance with the provisions of Article 11(3)(g) and 11(3)(i);</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.6.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">an identification of the cases where direct discharges to groundwater have been authorised in accordance with the provisions of Article 11(3)(j);</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.7.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of the measures taken in accordance with Article 16 on priority substances;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.8.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of the measures taken to prevent or reduce the impact of accidental pollution incidents;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.9.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of the measures taken under Article 11(5) for bodies of water which are unlikely to achieve the objectives set out under Article 4;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.10.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">details of the supplementary measures identified as necessary in order to meet the environmental objectives established;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">7.11.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">details of the measures taken to avoid increase in pollution of marine waters in accordance with Article 11(6);</p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">8.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a register of any more detailed programmes and management plans for the river basin district dealing with particular sub-basins, sectors, issues or water types, together with a summary of their contents;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">9.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of the public information and consultation measures taken, their results and the changes to the plan made as a consequence;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">10.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a list of competent authorities in accordance with Annex I;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">11.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">the contact points and procedures for obtaining the background documentation and information referred to in Article 14(1), and in particular details of the control measures adopted in accordance with Article 11(3)(g) and 11(3)(i) and of the actual monitoring data gathered in accordance with Article 8 and Annex V.</p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">B.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">The first update of the river basin management plan and all subsequent updates shall also include:</p> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">1.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of any changes or updates since the publication of the previous version of the river basin management plan, including a summary of the reviews to be carried out under Article 4(4), (5), (6) and (7);</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">2.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">an assessment of the progress made towards the achievement of the environmental objectives, including presentation of the monitoring results for the period of the previous plan in map form, and an explanation for any environmental objectives which have not been reached;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">3.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of, and an explanation for, any measures foreseen in the earlier version of the river basin management plan which have not been undertaken;</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <col width="5%" span="1"/> <col width="95%" span="1"/> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">4.</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="norm">a summary of any additional interim measures adopted under Article 11(5) since the publication of the previous version of the river basin management plan.</p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX VIII</p> <p class="title-annex-2">INDICATIVE LIST OF THE MAIN POLLUTANTS</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">1.<span style="word-spacing: 21pt"> </span>Organohalogen compounds and substances which may form such compounds in the aquatic environment.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">2.<span style="word-spacing: 21pt"> </span>Organophosphorous compounds.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">3.<span style="word-spacing: 21pt"> </span>Organotin compounds.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">4.<span style="word-spacing: 21pt"> </span>Substances and preparations, or the breakdown products of such, which have been proved to possess carcinogenic or mutagenic properties or properties which may affect steroidogenic, thyroid, reproduction or other endocrine-related functions in or via the aquatic environment.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">5.<span style="word-spacing: 21pt"> </span>Persistent hydrocarbons and persistent and bioaccumulable organic toxic substances.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">6.<span style="word-spacing: 21pt"> </span>Cyanides.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">7.<span style="word-spacing: 21pt"> </span>Metals and their compounds.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">8.<span style="word-spacing: 21pt"> </span>Arsenic and its compounds.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">9.<span style="word-spacing: 21pt"> </span>Biocides and plant protection products.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">10.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Materials in suspension.</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">11.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Substances which contribute to eutrophication (in particular, nitrates and phosphates).</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">12.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Substances which have an unfavourable influence on the oxygen balance (and can be measured using parameters such as BOD, COD, etc.).</p> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX IX</p> <p class="title-annex-2">EMISSION LIMIT VALUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STANDARDS</p> <p class="norm">The ‘limit values’ and ‘quality objectives’ established under the re Directives of Directive 76/464/EEC shall be considered emission limit values and environmental quality standards, respectively, for the purposes of this Directive. They are established in the following Directives:</p> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(i)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>The Mercury Discharges Directive (82/176/EEC) (<a href="#E0051" id="src.E0051" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">42</span> </a>);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(ii)<span style="word-spacing: 26pt"> </span>The Cadmium Discharges Directive (83/513/EEC) (<a href="#E0052" id="src.E0052" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">43</span> </a>);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 42pt; text-indent: -42pt"> <p class="norm">(iii)<span style="word-spacing: 30pt"> </span>The Mercury Directive (84/156/EEC) (<a href="#E0053" id="src.E0053" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">44</span> </a>);</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -36pt"> <p class="norm">(iv)<span style="word-spacing: 22pt"> </span>The Hexachlorocyclohexane Discharges Directive (84/491/EEC) (<a href="#E0054" id="src.E0054" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">45</span> </a>); and</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">(v)<span style="word-spacing: 18pt"> </span>The Dangerous Substance Discharges Directive (86/280/EEC) (<a href="#E0055" id="src.E0055" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">46</span> </a>).</p> </div> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32013L0039" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32013L0039: REPLACED" shape="rect">▼M5</a> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX X</p> <p> <br/> </p> <div class="centered"> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-table"> <span class="boldface">LIST OF PRIORITY SUBSTANCES IN THE FIELD OF WATER POLICY</span> </p> <table width="240" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="borderOj"> <col width="7%" span="1"/> <col width="21%" span="1"/> <col width="24%" span="1"/> <col width="39%" span="1"/> <col width="8%" span="1"/> <tbody> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Number</p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">CAS number <a href="#E0056" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>)</a> </p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">EU number <a href="#E0057" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">2</span>)</a> </p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Name of priority substance <a href="#E0058" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">3</span>)</a> </p> </td> <td style="font-weight: bold" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Identified as priority hazardous substance</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(1)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">15972-60-8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">240-110-8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Alachlor</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(2)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">120-12-7</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">204-371-1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Anthracene</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(3)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">1912-24-9</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">217-617-8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Atrazine</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(4)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">71-43-2</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">200-753-7</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Benzene</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(5)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Brominated diphenylethers</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X <a href="#E0059" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">4</span>)</a> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(6)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">7440-43-9</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">231-152-8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Cadmium and its compounds</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(7)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">85535-84-8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">287-476-5</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Chloroalkanes, C<span class="subscript">10-13</span> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(8)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">470-90-6</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">207-432-0</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Chlorfenvinphos</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(9)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">2921-88-2</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">220-864-4</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Chlorpyrifos (Chlorpyrifos-ethyl)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(10)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">107-06-2</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">203-458-1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">1,2-dichloroethane</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(11)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">75-09-2</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">200-838-9</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Dichloromethane</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(12)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">117-81-7</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">204-211-0</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(13)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">330-54-1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">206-354-4</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Diuron</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(14)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">115-29-7</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">204-079-4</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Endosulfan</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(15)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">206-44-0</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">205-912-4</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Fluoranthene</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(16)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">118-74-1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">204-273-9</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Hexachlorobenzene</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(17)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">87-68-3</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">201-765-5</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Hexachlorobutadiene</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(18)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">608-73-1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">210-168-9</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Hexachlorocyclohexane</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(19)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">34123-59-6</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">251-835-4</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Isoproturon</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(20)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">7439-92-1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">231-100-4</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Lead and its compounds</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(21)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">7439-97-6</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">231-106-7</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Mercury and its compounds</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(22)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">91-20-3</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">202-049-5</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Naphthalene</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(23)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">7440-02-0</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">231-111-4</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Nickel and its compounds</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(24)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Nonylphenols</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X <a href="#E0060" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">5</span>)</a> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(25)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Octylphenols <a href="#E0061" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">6</span>)</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(26)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">608-93-5</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">210-172-0</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Pentachlorobenzene</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(27)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">87-86-5</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">201-778-6</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Pentachlorophenol</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(28)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) <a href="#E0062" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">7</span>)</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(29)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">122-34-9</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">204-535-2</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Simazine</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(30)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Tributyltin compounds</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X <a href="#E0063" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">8</span>)</a> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(31)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">12002-48-1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">234-413-4</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Trichlorobenzenes</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(32)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">67-66-3</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">200-663-8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Trichloromethane (chloroform)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(33)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">1582-09-8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">216-428-8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Trifluralin</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(34)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">115-32-2</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">204-082-0</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Dicofol</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(35)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">1763-23-1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">217-179-8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Perfluorooctane sulfonic acid and its derivatives (PFOS)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(36)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">124495-18-7</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Quinoxyfen</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(37)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X <a href="#E0064" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">9</span>)</a> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(38)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">74070-46-5</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">277-704-1</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Aclonifen</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(39)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">42576-02-3</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">255-894-7</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Bifenox</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(40)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">28159-98-0</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">248-872-3</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Cybutryne</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(41)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">52315-07-8</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">257-842-9</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Cypermethrin <a href="#E0065" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">10</span>)</a> </p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(42)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">62-73-7</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">200-547-7</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Dichlorvos</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(43)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">not applicable</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDD)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X <a href="#E0066" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">11</span>)</a> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(44)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">76-44-8/ 1024-57-3</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">200-962-3/ 213-831-0</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Heptachlor and heptachlor epoxide</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">X</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">(45)</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">886-50-0</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">212-950-5</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm">Terbutryn</p> </td> <td valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <div/> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="5" rowspan="1"> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0056" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">1</span>) </a> CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service. </p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0057" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">2</span>) </a>EU-number: European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances (EINECS) or European List of Notified Chemical Substances (ELINCS).</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0058" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">3</span>) </a>Where groups of substances have been selected, unless explicitly noted, typical individual representatives are defined in the context of the setting of environmental quality standards.</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0059" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">4</span>) </a>Only Tetra, Penta, Hexa and Heptabromodiphenylether (CAS -numbers <span class="italics">40088-47-9</span>, 32534-81-9, 36483-60-0, 68928-80-3, respectively).</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0060" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">5</span>) </a>Nonylphenol (CAS 25154-52-3, EU 246-672-0) including isomers 4-nonylphenol (CAS 104-40-5, EU 203-199-4) and 4-nonylphenol (branched) (CAS 84852-15-3, EU 284-325-5).</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0061" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">6</span>) </a>Octylphenol (CAS 1806-26-4, EU 217-302-5) including isomer 4-(1,1',3,3'-tetramethylbutyl)-phenol (CAS 140-66-9, EU 205-426-2).</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0062" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">7</span>) </a>Including benzo(a)pyrene (CAS 50-32-8, EU 200-028-5), benzo(b)fluoranthene (CAS 205-99-2, EU 205-911-9), benzo(g,h,i)perylene (CAS 191-24-2, EU 205-883-8), benzo(k)fluoranthene (CAS 207-08-9, EU 205-916-6), indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene (CAS 193-39-5, EU 205-893-2) and excluding anthracene, fluoranthene and naphthalene, which are listed separately.</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0063" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">8</span>) </a>Including tributyltin-cation (CAS 36643-28-4).</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0064" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">9</span>) </a>This refers to the following compounds: 7 polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs): 2,3,7,8-T4CDD (CAS 1746-01-6), 1,2,3,7,8-P5CDD (CAS 40321-76-4), 1,2,3,4,7,8-H6CDD (CAS 39227-28-6), 1,2,3,6,7,8-H6CDD (CAS 57653-85-7), 1,2,3,7,8,9-H6CDD (CAS 19408-74-3), 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-H7CDD (CAS 35822-46-9), 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9-O8CDD (CAS 3268-87-9) 10 polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs): 2,3,7,8-T4CDF (CAS 51207-31-9), 1,2,3,7,8-P5CDF (CAS 57117-41-6), 2,3,4,7,8-P5CDF (CAS 57117-31-4), 1,2,3,4,7,8-H6CDF (CAS 70648-26-9), 1,2,3,6,7,8-H6CDF (CAS 57117-44-9), 1,2,3,7,8,9-H6CDF (CAS 72918-21-9), 2,3,4,6,7,8-H6CDF (CAS 60851-34-5), 1,2,3,4,6,7,8-H7CDF (CAS 67562-39-4), 1,2,3,4,7,8,9-H7CDF (CAS 55673-89-7), 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9-O8CDF (CAS 39001-02-0) 12 dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB-DL): 3,3',4,4'-T4CB (PCB 77, CAS 32598-13-3), 3,3',4',5-T4CB (PCB 81, CAS 70362-50-4), 2,3,3',4,4'-P5CB (PCB 105, CAS 32598-14-4), 2,3,4,4',5-P5CB (PCB 114, CAS 74472-37-0), 2,3',4,4',5-P5CB (PCB 118, CAS 31508-00-6), 2,3',4,4',5'-P5CB (PCB 123, CAS 65510-44-3), 3,3',4,4',5-P5CB (PCB 126, CAS 57465-28-8), 2,3,3',4,4',5-H6CB (PCB 156, CAS 38380-08-4), 2,3,3',4,4',5'-H6CB (PCB 157, CAS 69782-90-7), 2,3',4,4',5,5'-H6CB (PCB 167, CAS 52663-72-6), 3,3',4,4',5,5'-H6CB (PCB 169, CAS 32774-16-6), 2,3,3',4,4',5,5'-H7CB (PCB 189, CAS 39635-31-9). </p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0065" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">10</span>) </a>CAS 52315-07-8 refers to an isomer mixture of cypermethrin, alpha-cypermethrin (CAS 67375-30-8), beta-cypermethrin (CAS 65731-84-2), theta-cypermethrin (CAS 71697-59-1) and zeta-cypermethrin (52315-07-8).</p> <p class="tbl-norm"> <a id="E0066" shape="rect">(<span class="superscript">11</span>) </a>This refers to 1,3,5,7,9,11-Hexabromocyclododecane (CAS 25637-99-4), 1,2,5,6,9,10- Hexabromocyclododecane (CAS 3194-55-6), α-Hexabromocyclododecane (CAS 134237-50-6), β-Hexabromocyclododecane (CAS 134237-51-7) and γ- Hexabromocyclododecane (CAS 134237-52-8).</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <p class="modref"> <a href="./../../../legal-content/EN/AUTO/?uri=celex:32000L0060" onclick="window.open(this.href,'_blanc'); return false;" title="32000L0060" shape="rect">▼B</a> </p> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-annex"/> <p> <br/> </p> <p class="title-annex-1">ANNEX XI</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">MAP A</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">System A: Ecoregions for rivers and lakes</p> <p class="norm"> <img src="./../../../resource.html?uri=celex:02000L0060-20141120.ENG.xhtml.L_2000327EN.01007102.tif.jpg" width="607" height="616" alt="image"/> </p> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">1.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Iberic-Macaronesian region</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">2.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Pyrenees</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">3.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Italy, Corsica and Malta</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">4.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Alps</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">5.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Dinaric western Balkan</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">6.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Hellenic western Balkan</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">7.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Eastern Balkan</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">8.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Western highlands</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">9.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Central highlands</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">10.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>The Carpathians</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">11.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Hungarian lowlands</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">12.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Pontic province</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">13.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Western plains</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">14.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Central plains</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">15.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Baltic province</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">16.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Eastern plains</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">17.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Ireland and Northern Ireland</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">18.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Great Britain</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">19.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Iceland</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">20.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Borealic uplands</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">21.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Tundra</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">22.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Fenno-Scandian shield</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">23.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Taiga</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">24.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>The Caucasus</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 30pt; text-indent: -30pt"> <p class="norm">25.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Caspic depression</p> </div> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">MAP B</p> <p class="title-gr-seq-level-1">System A: Ecoregions for transitional waters and coastal waters</p> <p class="norm"> <img src="./../../../resource.html?uri=celex:02000L0060-20141120.ENG.xhtml.L_2000327EN.01007201.tif.jpg" width="599" height="689" alt="image"/> </p> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">1.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Atlantic Ocean</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">2.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Norwegian Sea</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">3.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Barents Sea</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">4.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>North Sea</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">5.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Baltic Sea</p> </div> <div style="margin-left: 24pt; text-indent: -24pt"> <p class="norm">6.<span style="word-spacing: 15pt"> </span>Mediterranean Sea</p> </div> <p> <br/> </p> <hr class="separator-short"/> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0001" id="E0001" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">1</span> </a>) OJ C 184, 17.6.1997, p. 20,</p> <p class="footnote">OJ C 16, 20.1.1998, p. 14 and</p> <p class="footnote">OJ C 108, 7.4.1998, p. 94.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0002" id="E0002" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">2</span> </a>) OJ C 355, 21.11.1997, p. 83.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0003" id="E0003" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">3</span> </a>) OJ C 180, 11.6.1998, p. 38.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0004" id="E0004" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">4</span> </a>) Opinion of the European Parliament of 11 February 1999 (OJ C 150, 28.5.1999, p. 419), confirmed on 16 September 1999, and Council Common Position of 22 October 1999 (OJ C 343, 30.11.1999, p. 1). Decision of the European Parliament of 7 September 2000 and Decision of the Council of 14 September 2000.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0005" id="E0005" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">5</span> </a>) OJ C 209, 9.8.1988, p. 3.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0006" id="E0006" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">6</span> </a>) OJ C 59, 6.3.1992, p. 2.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0007" id="E0007" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">7</span> </a>) OJ C 49, 28.2.1995, p. 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0008" id="E0008" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">8</span> </a>) OJ L 20, 26.1.1980, p. 43. Directive as amended by Directive 91/692/EEC (OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 48).</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0009" id="E0009" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">9</span> </a>) OJ C 355, 25.11.1996, p. 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0010" id="E0010" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">10</span> </a>) OJ C 281, 26.9.1996, p. 3.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0011" id="E0011" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">11</span> </a>) OJ L 73, 16.3.1994, p. 19.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0012" id="E0012" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">12</span> </a>) OJ L 104, 3.4.1998, p. 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0013" id="E0013" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">13</span> </a>) OJ L 240, 19.9.1977, p 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0014" id="E0014" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">14</span> </a>) OJ L 67, 12.3.1983, p. 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0015" id="E0015" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">15</span> </a>) OJ L 186, 5.8.1995, p. 42.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0016" id="E0016" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">16</span> </a>) OJ L 229, 30.8.1980, p. 11. Directive as last amended by Directive 98/83/EC (OJ L 330, 5.12.1998, p. 32).</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0017" id="E0017" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">17</span> </a>) OJ C 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0018" id="E0018" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">18</span> </a>) OJ L 129, 18.5.1976, p. 23. Directive as amended by Directive 91/692/EEC (OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 48).</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0019" id="E0019" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">19</span> </a>) OJ L 257, 10.10.1996, p. 26.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0020" id="E0020" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">20</span> </a>) OJ L 135, 30.5.1991, p. 40. Directive as amended by Commission Directive 98/15/EC (OJ L 67, 7.3.1998, p. 29).</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0021" id="E0021" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">21</span> </a>) OJ L 375, 31.12.1991, p. 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0022" id="E0022" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">22</span> </a>) OJ L 140, 5.6.2009, p. 114.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0023" id="E0023" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">23</span> </a>) OJ L 84, 5.4.1993, p. 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0024" id="E0024" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">24</span> </a>) OJ L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 98/47/EC (OJ L 191, 7.7.1998, p. 50).</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0025" id="E0025" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">25</span> </a>) OJ L 123, 24.4.1998, p. 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0026" id="E0026" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">26</span> </a>) OJ L 194, 25.7.1975, p. 26. Directive as last amended by Directive 91/692/EEC.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0027" id="E0027" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">27</span> </a>) OJ L 334, 24.12.1977, p. 29. Decision as last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0028" id="E0028" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">28</span> </a>) OJ L 271, 29.10.1979, p. 44. Directive as last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0029" id="E0029" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">29</span> </a>) OJ L 222, 14.8.1978, p. 1. Directive as last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0030" id="E0030" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">30</span> </a>) OJ L 281, 10.11.1979, p. 47. Directive as amended by Directive 91/692/EEC.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0031" id="E0031" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">31</span> </a>) OJ L 135, 30.5.1991, p. 40. Directive as last amended by Directive 98/15/EC (OJ L 67, 7.3.1998, p. 29).</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0032" id="E0032" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">32</span> </a>) OJ L 31, 5.2.1976, p. 1. Directive as last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0033" id="E0033" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">33</span> </a>) OJ L 281, 10.11.1979, p. 47. Directive as amended by Directive 91/692/EEC (OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 48).</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0034" id="E0034" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">34</span> </a>) OJ L 375, 31.12.1991, p. 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0035" id="E0035" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">35</span> </a>) OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7. Directive as last amended by Directive 97/62/EC (OJ L 305, 8.11.1997, p. 42).</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0036" id="E0036" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">36</span> </a>) OJ L 103, 25.4.1979, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 97/49/EC (OJ L 223, 13.8.1997, p. 9).</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0046" id="E0046" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">37</span> </a>) OJ L 103, 25.4.1979, p. 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0047" id="E0047" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">38</span> </a>) OJ L 10, 14.1.1997, p. 13.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0048" id="E0048" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">39</span> </a>) OJ L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40. Directive as amended by Directive 97/11/EC (OJ L 73, 14.3.1997, p. 5).</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0049" id="E0049" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">40</span> </a>) OJ L 181, 8.7.1986, p. 6.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0050" id="E0050" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">41</span> </a>) OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0051" id="E0051" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">42</span> </a>) OJ L 81, 27.3.1982, p. 29.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0052" id="E0052" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">43</span> </a>) OJ L 291, 24.10.1983, p. 1.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0053" id="E0053" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">44</span> </a>) OJ L 74, 17.3.1984, p. 49.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0054" id="E0054" shape="rect"> <span class="superscript">45</span> </a>) OJ L 274, 17.10.1984, p. 11.</p> <p class="footnote">(<a href="#src.E0055" id="E0055" shape="rect"> <span 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