{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-england-and-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-england-and-wales-regulations-2017/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/407",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-england-and-wales-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Environmental objectives: application of regulations 15 to 19",
  "text": "Regulations 15 to 19 must be applied in a way that—\n(a) does not permanently exclude or compromise the achievement of the environmental objectives set in relation to any other water body within the same river basin district;\n(b) is not inconsistent with any other assimilated law;\n(c) guarantees at least the same level of protection for bodies of water as the EU instruments repealed by Article 22 of the WFD.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 14(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 20(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 14(b) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 39(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/407/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:12:40.140898+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."
}