{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-118/annex-II/part-C",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2006/118",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-118",
  "path": "annex/II/part/C",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "C",
  "heading": "Information to be provided by Member States with regard to the pollutants and their indicators for which threshold values have been established",
  "text": "Member States shall include in the river basin management plans to be submitted in accordance with Article 13 of Directive 2000/60/EC information on the way the procedure set out in Part A of this Annex has been followed.\nIn particular, Member States shall provide:\n(a) information on each of the bodies or groups of bodies of groundwater characterised as being at risk, including the following:\n(i) the size of the bodies;\n(ii) each pollutant or indicator of pollution which characterises bodies of groundwater as being at risk;\n(iii) the environmental quality objectives to which the risk is related, including the actual or potential legitimate uses or functions of the groundwater body, and the relationship between the bodies of groundwater and the associated surface waters and directly dependent terrestrial ecosystems;\n(iv) in the case of naturally-occurring substances, the natural background levels in the bodies of groundwater;\n(v) information on the exceedances where threshold values are exceeded;\n(b) the threshold values, whether they apply at the national level, at the level of the river basin district or the part of the international river basin district falling within the territory of the Member State, or at the level of a body or a group of bodies of groundwater;\n(c) the relationship between the threshold values and each of the following:\n(i) in the case of naturally-occurring substances, the background levels;\n(ii) associated surface waters and directly dependent terrestrial ecosystems;\n(iii) the environmental quality objectives and other standards for water protection that exist at national, Union or international level;\n(iv) any relevant information concerning the toxicology, eco-toxicology, persistence, bioaccumulation potential, and dispersion tendency of the pollutants;\n(d) the methodology for determining background levels based on the principles set out in point 3 of Part A;\n(e) the reasons for not having established threshold values for any of the pollutants and indicators identified in Part B;\n(f) key elements of the groundwater chemical status assessment, including the level, method and period of aggregation of monitoring results, the definition of the acceptable extent of exceedance, and the method for calculating it, in accordance with Article 4(2)(c)(i) and point 3 of Annex III.\nWhere any of the data referred to in points (a) to (f) are not included in the river basin management plans, Member States shall provide the reasons for this in those plans.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Directive 2014/80/EU of 20 June 2014 amending Annex II to Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2006/118/annex/II/part/C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:30.470918+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."
}