# The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016, Paragraph 13: Modification of the Water Framework Directive

Extent: E+W

(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 ”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1154/schedule/1A/paragraph/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2016/schedule-1A/paragraph-13
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