# Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (recast) (Text with EEA relevance), Part A: Microbiological parameters for which methods of analysis are specified

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

The methods of analysis for microbiological parameters are:
(a) Escherichia coli (E. coli) and coliform bacteria (EN ISO 9308-1 or EN ISO 9308-2);
(b) intestinal enterococci (EN ISO 7899-2);
(c) colony count or heterotrophic plate counts at 22 °C (EN ISO 6222);
(d) Clostridium perfringens including spores (EN ISO 14189);
(e) Legionella (EN ISO 11731 for compliance with the value in Part D of Annex I);
for risk-based verification monitoring and to complement culture methods, in addition methods, such as ISO/TS 12869, rapid culture methods, non-culture-based methods, and molecular-based methods, in particular qPCR, can be used;
(f) somatic coliphages;
for operational monitoring, Part A of Annex II, EN ISO 10705-2, and EN ISO 10705-3 can be used.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2020/2184/annex/III/part/A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2020-2184/annex-III/part-A
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.