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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-northumbria-and-solway-tweed-river-basin-districts-amendment-regulations-2016/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/139",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria and Solway Tweed River Basin Districts) (Amendment) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-northumbria-and-solway-tweed-river-basin-districts-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 2 (interpretation)—\n(a) for the definition of “the Directive” substitute—\n““the Directive” means Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy;”;\n(b) in the appropriate places insert—\n““the Agency” means the Environment Agency;”;\n““the EQS Directive” means Directive 2008/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on environmental quality standards in the field of water policy;”;\n““the Groundwater Directive” means Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration;”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 3.3.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 327, 22.12.2000, p 1, as last amended by Commission Directive 2014/101/EU (OJ No L 311, 31.10.2014, p 32). The effect of section 20A of the Interpretation Act 1978 (c.30) is that the reference to Directive 2000/60/EC in the Northumbria Regulations are references to that Directive as last amended by Commission Directive 2014/101/EU."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 348, 24.12.2008, p 84, as last amended by Directive 2013/39/EU (OJ No L 226, 24.8.2013, p 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No L 372, 27.12.2006, p 19, as amended by Commission Directive 2014/80/EU (OJ No L 182, 21.6.2014, p 52)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
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