# 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 2.1.2: Definition of quantitative status

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

Elements
Good status
Groundwater level
The level of groundwater in the groundwater body is such that the available groundwater resource is not exceeded by the long-term annual average rate of abstraction.
Accordingly, the level of groundwater is not subject to anthropogenic alterations such as would result in:
failure to achieve the environmental objectives specified under Article 4 for associated surface waters,
any significant diminution in the status of such waters,
any significant damage to terrestrial ecosystems which depend directly on the groundwater body,
and alterations to flow direction resulting from level changes may occur temporarily, or continuously in a spatially limited area, but such reversals do not cause saltwater or other intrusion, and do not indicate a sustained and clearly identified anthropogenically induced trend in flow direction likely to result in such intrusions.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2000/60/annex/V/division/2/division/2.1/division/2.1.2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-60/annex-V/division-2/division-2.1/division-2.1.2
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.