# 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, Division: Selection of monitoring points

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Surveillance monitoring shall be carried out of sufficient surface water bodies to provide an assessment of the overall surface water status within each catchment or subcatchments within the river basin district. In selecting these bodies Member States shall ensure that, where appropriate, monitoring is carried out at points where:
the rate of water flow is significant within the river basin district as a whole; including points on large rivers where the catchment area is greater than 2 500 km2,
the volume of water present is significant within the river basin district, including large lakes and reservoirs,
significant bodies of water cross a Member State boundary,
sites are identified under the Information Exchange Decision 77/795/EEC, and
at such other sites as are required to estimate the pollutant load which is transferred across Member State boundaries, and which is transferred into the marine environment.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2000/60/annex/V/division/1/division/1.3/division/1.3.1/division/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-60/annex-V/division-1/division-1.3/division-1.3.1/division-2
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