{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-60/annex-II/division-2/division-2.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-60/annex-II/division-2/division-2.1.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2000/60",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-60",
  "path": "annex/II/division/2/division/2.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2.1",
  "heading": "Initial characterisation",
  "text": "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:\nthe location and boundaries of the groundwater body or bodies,\nthe pressures to which the groundwater body or bodies are liable to be subject including:\ndiffuse sources of pollution\npoint sources of pollution\nabstraction\nartificial recharge,\nthe general character of the overlying strata in the catchment area from which the groundwater body receives its recharge,\nthose groundwater bodies for which there are directly dependent surface water ecosystems or terrestrial ecosystems.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2000/60/annex/II/division/2/division/2.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:01.769169+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."
}