{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-river-basin-management-planning-further-provision-scotland-regulations-2013/regulation-20",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2013/323",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (River Basin Management Planning: Further Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-river-basin-management-planning-further-provision-scotland-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 4",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“background level” means the concentration of a substance or the value of an indicator in a body of groundwater corresponding to no, or only very minor, anthropogenic alterations to undisturbed conditions;\n“baseline level” means the average value measured at least during the reference years 2007 and 2008 on the basis of monitoring in accordance with a programme prepared under section 8(2) (monitoring) of the Act or, in the case of substances identified after these reference years, during the first period for which a representative period of monitoring data is available;\n...\n“groundwater quality standard” means an environmental quality standard expressed as the concentration of a particular pollutant, group of pollutants or indicator of pollution in groundwater, which should not be exceeded in order to protect human health and the environment;\n“input of pollutants into groundwater” means the direct or indirect introduction of pollutants into groundwater as a result of human activity;\n“significant and sustained upward trend” means any statistically and environmentally significant increase of concentration of a pollutant, group of pollutants, or indicator of pollution in groundwater for which trend reversal is identified as being necessary in accordance with regulation 23; and\n“threshold value” means a groundwater quality standard established under regulation 21(2).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Environment (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/26), regs. 1, 4(10); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/323/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:17.670679+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."
}