Paragraph 13 Modification of the Water Framework DirectiveF1

England and Wales

(1)

For the purposes of these Regulations, the Water Framework Directive is to be read in accordance with this paragraph.

(2)

Article 2 is to be read as if paragraph 30 were omitted.

(3)

Article 11(3)(j) is to be read as if—

(a)

the reference to “Member States” were a reference to the appropriate authority or appropriate agency;

(b)

in the words after the final indent, for “established for that body of groundwater” there were substituted “ (which has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016) in relation to a river basin district ”.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 1A inserted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/39), reg. 1, Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2019/559, regs. 1(2), 3(3); S.I. 2019/1078, regs. 1, 3; S.I. 2020/1376, regs. 1(4), 4(2); S.I. 2020/1540, regs. 1(3), 10, 13(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)