# The Bathing Water Regulations 2013, Regulation 18: Amendment of the Bathing Waters (Classification) Regulations 1991 and transitional provision


(1) In the Bathing Waters (Classification) Regulations 1991 , in regulation 2(4), for the words from “Schedule 3” to the end substitute “ Schedule 4 to the Bathing Water Regulations 2013. ”
(2) Every notice served, or deemed to have been served, on the appropriate agency under section 83 of the Water Resources Act 1991 (water quality objectives) in relation to classification BW1, and every notice which has effect as if so served, has effect subject to the transitional provision in paragraph (1).
(3) The National Rivers Authority (Bathing Waters) Directions 1992 have effect as if—
(a) the only entries in the Annex to Council Directive 76/160/EEC concerning the quality of bathing water were intestinal enterococci or Escherichia coli; and
(b) conformity with the values which appear in column G of that Annex were met where—
(i) at least 90% of samples of waters taken and tested in accordance with these Regulations for intestinal enterococci meet the parametric value of 100 per 100 millilitres; and
(ii) at least 80% of samples of waters taken and tested in accordance with these Regulations for Escherichia coli meet the parametric value of 100 per 100 millilitres.
(4) Until the appropriate agency classifies a bathing water under regulation 11, for the purposes of regulation 9, the appropriate agency must, subject to the transitional provision in this regulation, classify the bathing water by reference to whether it conforms to the values in column I or G of the Annex to Council Directive 76/160/EEC.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1675/regulation/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/bathing-water-regulations-2013/regulation-18
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