# The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria and Solway Tweed River Basin Districts) (Amendment) Regulations 2016, Note: Explanatory note

Extent: E+W+S

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria River Basin District) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3245) and the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004 (“the Solway Tweed Regulations”) (S.I. 2004/99).
The amendments transpose aspects of Directive 2013/39/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council which concerns priority substances in the field of water policy (OJ No L 226, 24.8.2013, p 1).
The Regulations also amend the Solway Tweed Regulations to make provision about shellfish water protected areas. This provision is being made due to the repeal of Directive 2006/113/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the quality required of shellfish waters (OJ No L 376, 27.12.2006, p 14), so that protections under that Directive are continued. (Similar provision is made for England and Wales in a separate instrument, including the area to which the Northumbria Regulations apply.) The amendments ensure that any necessary environmental objectives required to improve or protect the water quality of a shellfish water protected area to support shellfish life and growth are set, that monitoring in relation to such objectives takes place in those areas, and that information about them is included in the river basin management plan.
The Regulations make other minor amendments, including updating Schedule 2 to the Solway Tweed Regulations which contains a list of relevant enactments to which the “general duties” of the Secretary of State and the Environment Agency in regulation 4 of those Regulations apply.
An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/139/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-northumbria-and-solway-tweed-river-basin-districts-amendment-regulations-2016/note
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