Paragraph 5 Monitoring

United Kingdom

(1)

The Agencies must—

(a)

establish programmes for monitoring water status in order to establish a coherent and comprehensive overview of water status within the Solway Tweed River Basin District; and

(b)

take such other action as is necessary to give effect to the relevant monitoring provisions of the Directive F1, the EQS Directive and the Groundwater Directive.

(2)

The monitoring programmes must cover—

(a)

in relation to surface water—

(i)

the volume and level or rate of flow to the extent relevant to ecological and chemical status and ecological potential; and

(ii)

ecological and chemical status and ecological potential; and

(b)

in relation to groundwater, chemical and quantitative status.

(3)

The monitoring programmes must be made operational by 22nd December 2006.

(4)

The relevant monitoring provisions of the Directive referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are set out in the following provisions of Annex V to the Directive—

(a)

points 1.3 to 1.3.6 (monitoring of ecological status, chemical status and ecological potential for surface waters);

(b)

points F21.4.1 (excluding points (iv) to (ix)), 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 (classification and presentation of ecological status, chemical status and ecological potential);

(c)

points 2.2 to 2.2.4 (monitoring of groundwater quantitative status);

(d)

points 2.4 to 2.4.4 (monitoring of groundwater chemical status); and

(e)

points 2.4.5 and 2.5 (interpretation and presentation of groundwater status).

F3(5)

The Agencies must maintain, in relation to each shellfish water protected area, a monitoring programme for the purposes of enabling a reliable assessment of whether the shellfish water objectives have been or will be achieved.

(6)

By 22nd December 2018, the Agencies must establish, for the Solway Tweed River Basin District, a monitoring programme in respect of substances 34 to 45 in the table of priority substances.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. 1 para. 5(1)(b) 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. 2 para. 8(a)
F2: Words in Sch. 1 para. 5(4)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 11(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Sch. 1 para. 5(5)(6) 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. 2 para. 8(b)