EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES (SURFACE WATERS) REGULATIONS 2009
Source: Iris Oifigiúl 2009-07-24

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paragraphs: (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities Environmental Objectives (Surface Waters) Regulations 2009.
(2) These Regulations shall come into operation on the 30th of July 2009.
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paragraphs: These Regulations apply to all surface waters and are made to give effect to the measures needed to achieve the environmental objectives established for bodies of surface water by Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, hereinafter known as the Water Framework Directive, including the environmental quality standards established by Directive 2008/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and to give further effect to the requirements of Directive 2006/11/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, hereinafter known as the Dangerous Substances Directive and include the following:
(a) measures for the protection of surface water bodies whose status is determined to be high or good (or good potential as the case may be) and measures requiring the restoration of surface water bodies of less than good status (or good potential as the case may be) to not less than good status (or good potential) by not later than 22 December 2015;
(b) measures establishing environmental quality standards for priority substances and certain other pollutants as provided for in Article 16 of the Water Framework Directive that are to apply in calculating the chemical status of bodies of surface water;
(c) measures that provide for the progressive reduction of pollution by priority substances in accordance with the provisions of Article 4(1)(a)(iv) and Article 16(1) and (8) of the Water Framework Directive;
(d) measures establishing a list of priority hazardous substances for which measures are to be put in place with the aim of ceasing or phasing out of emissions, discharges and losses of these substances as provided for by Article 4(1)(a)(iv) and Article 16(1) and (8) of the Water Framework Directive;
(e) measures establishing environmental quality standards for the pollutants listed in points 1 to 9 of Annex VIII of the Water Framework Directive that are to apply in calculating the ecological status or, where relevant, the ecological potential of bodies of surface water in accordance with the provisions and objectives of Article 4(1)(a)(ii) and 4(1)(a)(iii) of that Directive;
(f) measures establishing environmental quality standards for the general conditions specified in Annex V of the Water Framework Directive that are to apply in calculating the ecological status or, where relevant, the ecological potential of bodies of surface water in accordance with the provisions and objectives of Article 4(1)(a)(ii) and 4(1)(a)(iii) of that Directive;
(g) measures establishing the ecological quality ratios that represent the boundaries between high and good ecological status and between good and moderate ecological status for the biological quality elements specified in Annex V of the Water Framework Directive that are to apply in calculating the ecological status of bodies of surface water in accordance with the provisions and objectives of Article 4 of that Directive;
(h) the laying down of rules for the presentation and reporting of surface water monitoring results and the classification of ecological status, ecological potential and the chemical status of surface water bodies in accordance with the requirements of Article 15, Annex V and Annex VII of the Water Framework Directive;
(i) measures to prevent and reduce the pollution of waters by dangerous substances and give further effect to the requirements of Articles 6 and 9 of the Dangerous Substances Directive;
(j) measures that provide for the establishment and operation of programmes in order to achieve the objectives established under Article 4(1) (a) of the Water Framework Directive including the reduction in pollution of waters by List II substances as required by Articles 6 and 9 of the Dangerous Substances Directive.
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paragraphs: (1) In these Regulations, save where the context otherwise requires,—
(a) a site (until the adoption, in respect of the site, of a decision by the European Commission under Article 21 of Council Directive 92/43/EEC for the purposes of the third paragraph of Article 4(2) of that Directive)—
(i) notified for the purposes of Regulation 4 of the European Communities (Natural Habitats) Regulations ( S.I. No. 94 of 1997 ), subject to any amendments made to it by virtue of Regulation 5 of those Regulations,
(ii) details of which have been transmitted to the Commission in accordance with Regulation 5(4) of the said Regulations, or
(iii) added by virtue of Regulation 6 of the said Regulations to the list transmitted to the Commission in accordance with Regulation 5(4) of those Regulations,
(b) a site adopted by the European Commission as a site of Community importance for the purposes of Article 4(2) of Council Directive 92/43/EEC in accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 21 of that Directive,
(c) a special area of conservation within the meaning of the European Communities (Natural Habitats) Regulations ( S.I. No. 94 of 1997 ) or
(d) an area classified pursuant to Article 4(1) or 4(2) of Council Directive 79/409/EEC.