{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-northumbria-river-basin-district-regulations-2003/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-northumbria-river-basin-district-regulations-2003/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/3245",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria River Basin District) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-northumbria-river-basin-district-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Agency” means the Environment Agency;\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“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;\n“the principal Regulations” means the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017;\n“the Northumbria River Basin District” means the area identified by regulation 3(1);\n“relevant functions” means—\n(a)in relation to the Secretary of State and the Agency, functions under regulations 5 to 36 of the principal Regulations and, so far as material, the enactments listed in Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 2 to those Regulations (which relate to statutes and subordinate instruments respectively); and\n(b)in relation to the Scottish Ministers and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, functions under Part 1 of the Scottish Act, as applied by regulation 6;\n“the Scottish Act” means the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003; and\n“the Scottish Ministers” has the meaning given by section 127 of the Scotland Act 1998.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (3.3.2016) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria and Solway Tweed River Basin Districts) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/139), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (3.3.2016) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria and Solway Tweed River Basin Districts) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/139), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (E.W.) (10.4.2017) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/407), reg. 1(a), Sch. 4 para. 1(2)(a) (with reg. 1(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (E.W.) (10.4.2017) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/407), reg. 1(a), Sch. 4 para. 1(2)(b) (with reg. 1(c))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 asp 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 46."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3245/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:37:01.248424+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."
}