{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1137/annex/division-4/division-4.1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2008/1137",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part One",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1137",
  "path": "annex/division/4/division/4.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4.1",
  "heading": "Council Directive 76/160/EEC of 8 December 1975 concerning the quality of bathing water",
  "text": "As regards Directive 76/160/EEC, the Commission should be empowered to adapt to technical progress the G and I values for the parameters and the methods of analysis set out in the Annex thereto. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 76/160/EEC, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.\nAccordingly, Directive 76/160/EEC is hereby amended as follows:\n1.. Article 9 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘Article 9 The Commission shall adopt such amendments as are necessary to adapt to technical progress the G and I values for the parameters and the methods of analysis set out in the Annex to this Directive.\nThose measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 11(2).’;\n2.. Article 11 shall be amended as follows:\n(a) paragraph 2 shall be replaced by the following:\n‘2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’;\n(b) paragraph 3 shall be deleted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 31, 5.2.1976, p. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1137/annex/division/4/division/4.1",
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  },
  "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."
}