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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-solway-tweed-river-basin-district-regulations-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/99",
  "legislation_title": "The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/water-environment-water-framework-directive-solway-tweed-river-basin-district-regulations-2004",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "River basin management plan",
  "text": "(1) The Agencies must by such date as the Ministers may direct prepare and submit to the Ministers a river basin management plan for the Solway Tweed River Basin District.\n(2) Any river basin management plan for the Solway Tweed River Basin District must—\n(a) relate to such period as the Ministers direct; ...\n(b) include the information specified in the relevant provisions of the Directive , the EQS Directive and the Groundwater Directive; and\n(c) include, in relation to any shellfish water protected area, equivalent information relating to the shellfish water objectives as is required by paragraph 7(3)(d) to be included for the environmental objectives falling within paragraph (a) of the definition of environmental objectives.\n(3) The relevant provisions of the Directive for the purposes of this paragraph are—\n(a) Article 9(2) and (4) (recovery of the costs of water services);\n(b) Annex II, point 1.3(vi) (exclusion of elements from the assessment of ecological status);\n(c) the following provisions of Annex V—\n(i) points 1.3 and 1.3.4 (confidence and precision in monitoring surface water);\n(ii) point 2.4.1 (confidence and precision in monitoring groundwater); and\n(iii) points 2.4.5 and 2.5 (presentation of monitoring results for groundwater); and\n(d) Annex VII, Part A (elements to be covered in river basin management plans).\n(3A) The relevant provisions of the EQS Directive for the purposes of this paragraph are—\n(a) Article 3(5) (information about monitoring and analysis, including alternative matrices);\n(b) Article 4(2) (information relating to mixing zones); and\n(c) Article 5(4) (updated inventories).\n(3B) The relevant provisions of the Groundwater Directive for the purposes of this paragraph are—\n(a) Article 3(5) (information on threshold values);\n(b) Article 4(4) (information on the assessment of groundwater chemical status); and\n(c) Article 5(4) and (5) and Part C of Annex II (information on trend assessments).\n(3C) Where a provision referred to in sub-paragraphs (3) to (3B) refers to Article 13 of the Directive, that reference is to be read as a reference to Article 13 except in so far as it gives rise to any obligation under Article 15 of the Directive.\n(4) The Ministers must ensure that a river basin management plan for the Solway Tweed River Basin District approved under paragraph 10 is—\n(a) published by 22nd December 2009; and\n(b) periodically reviewed and where appropriate updated, initially by 22nd December 2015 and thereafter by each sixth anniversary of that date.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 1 para. 7(2) omitted (3.3.2016) by virtue of 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. 11(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 7(2)(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. 11(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7(2)(c) 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. 11(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7(3A)(3B) 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. 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 7(3C) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 11(3)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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