{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-floods-and-water-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-25",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111176283",
  "legislation_title": "The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-floods-and-water-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229",
  "text": "(1) Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229 establishing, pursuant to Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, the values of the Member State monitoring system classifications as a result of the intercalibration exercise is amended as follows.\n(2) In Article 1—\n(a) in paragraph 1, for “Member States shall use in their” substitute “the relevant person must use in its”;\n(b) in paragraph 2—\n(i) for “Member States shall” substitute “the relevant person must”;\n(ii) for “use in their” substitute “use in its”;\n(c) in paragraph 3, for “Member States” substitute “The relevant person”;\n(d) after paragraph 3 insert—\n“4. In this Article—\n(a) “relevant person” means—\n(i) in relation to England and the Northumbria River Basin District, the Environment Agency (“the EA”) (subject to points (iii) and (v));\n(ii) in relation to Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales (“NRW”) (subject to point (iii));\n(iii) in relation to a river basin district which is partly in England and partly in Wales, the EA and NRW acting jointly;\n(iv) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers (subject to point (v));\n(v) in relation to the Solway Tweed River Basin District, the EA and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency acting jointly;\n(vi) in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;\n(b) references to Article 4(3) of, and Section 1.4.1(iii) of Annex 5 to, Directive 2000/60/EC are to be read as if any requirements imposed or discretion conferred by those provisions on a member State were imposed or conferred on the relevant person.”;\n(e) omit Articles 2 and 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111176283/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:02:57.036536+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}