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of 23 October 2000
establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy
(OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 1)
Amended by:
Official Journal
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DIRECTIVE 2000/60/EC OFTHE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
AND OFTHE COUNCIL
of 23 October 2000
establishing a framework for Community action in the field of
water policy
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and
in particular Article 175(1) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee(2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions(3),
Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of
the Treaty(4), and in the light of the joint text approved by the Conci-
liation Committee on 18 July 2000,
Whereas:
(1)Water is not a commercial product like any other but, rather, a
heritage which must be protected, defended and treated as such.
(2)The conclusions of the Community Water Policy MinisterialSeminar in Frankfurt in 1988 highlighted the need for Commu-nity legislation covering ecological quality. The Council in its
resolution of 28 June 1988(
5) asked the Commission to submit
proposals to improve ecological quality in Community surfacewaters.
(3)The declaration of the Ministerial Seminar on groundwater heldat The Hague in 1991 recognised the need for action to avoid
long-term deterioration of freshwater quality and quantity and
called for a programme of actions to be implemented by theyear 2000 aiming at sustainable management and protection offreshwater resources. In its resolutions of 25 February 1992(
6),
and 20 February 1995(7), the Council requested an action
programme for groundwater and a revision of Council Directive
80/68/EEC of 17 December 1979 on the protection of ground-
water against pollution caused by certain dangeroussubstances(
8), as part of an overall policy on freshwater protec-
tion.
(4)Waters in the Community are under increasing pressure from the
continuous growth in demand for sufficient quantities of good
quality water for all purposes. On 10 November 1995, theEuropean Environment Agency in its report ‘Environment inthe European Union - 1995’ presented an updated state of theenvironment report, confirming the need for action to protect
Community waters in qualitative as well as in quantitative terms.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 2
(1) OJ C 184, 17.6.1997, p. 20,
OJ C 16, 20.1.1998, p. 14 and
OJ C 108, 7.4.1998, p. 94.
(2) OJ C 355, 21.11.1997, p. 83.
(3) OJ C 180, 11.6.1998, p. 38.
(4) Opinion of the European Parliament of 11 February 1999 (OJ C 150,
28.5.1999, p. 419), confirmed on 16 September 1999, and Council Common
Position of 22 October 1999 (OJ C 343, 30.11.1999, p. 1). Decision of the
European Parliament of 7 September 2000 and Decision of the Council of
14 September 2000.
(5) OJ C 209, 9.8.1988, p. 3.
(6) OJ C 59, 6.3.1992, p. 2.
(7) OJ C 49, 28.2.1995, p. 1.
(8) OJ L 20, 26.1.1980, p. 43. Directive as amended by Directive 91/692/EEC
(OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 48).
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(5)On 18 December 1995, the Council adopted conclusions
requiring, inter alia, the drawing up of a new framework Direc-
tive establishing the basic principles of sustainable water policyin the European Union and inviting the Commission to comeforward with a proposal.
(6)On 21 February 1996 the Commission adopted a communicationto the European Parliament and the Council on EuropeanCommunity water policy setting out the principles for a Commu-nity water policy.
(7)On 9 September 1996 the Commission presented a proposal for aDecision of the European Parliament and of the Council on anaction programme for integrated protection and management ofgroundwater(
1). In that proposal the Commission pointed to the
need to establish procedures for the regulation of abstraction of
freshwater and for the monitoring of freshwater quality and
quantity.
(8)On 29 May 1995 the Commission adopted a communication tothe European Parliament and the Council on the wise use and
conservation of wetlands, which recognised the important func-
tions they perform for the protection of water resources.
(9)It is necessary to develop an integrated Community policy onwater.
(10)The Council on 25 June 1996, the Committee of the Regions on19 September 1996, the Economic and Social Committee on 26September 1996, and the European Parliament on 23 October1996 all requested the Commission to come forward with a
proposal for a Council Directive establishing a framework for a
European water policy.
(11)As set out in Article 174 of the Treaty, the Community policy onthe environment is to contribute to pursuit of the objectives of
preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the environ-
ment, in prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources, andto be based on the precautionary principle and on the principlesthat preventive action should be taken, environmental damageshould, as a priority, be rectified at source and that the polluter
should pay.
(12)Pursuant to Article 174 of the Treaty, in preparing its policy on
the environment, the Community is to take account of availablescientific and technical data, environmental conditions in the
various regions of the Community, and the economic and social
development of the Community as a whole and the balanceddevelopment of its regions as well as the potential benefits andcosts of action or lack of action.
(13)There are diverse conditions and needs in the Community whichrequire different specific solutions. This diversity should betaken into account in the planning and execution of measures toensure protection and sustainable use of water in the frameworkof the river basin. Decisions should be taken as close as possible
to the locations where water is affected or used. Priority should
be given to action within the responsibility of Member Statesthrough the drawing up of programmes of measures adjusted toregional and local conditions.
(14)The success of this Directive relies on close cooperation andcoherent action at Community, Member State and local level aswell as on information, consultation and involvement of thepublic, including users.
(15)The supply of water is a service of general interest as defined inthe Commission communication on services of general interestin Europe(
2).2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 3
(1) OJ C 355, 25.11.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ C 281, 26.9.1996, p. 3.
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(16)Further integration of protection and sustainable management of
water into other Community policy areas such as energy, trans-
port, agriculture, fisheries, regional policy and tourism isnecessary. This Directive should provide a basis for a continueddialogue and for the development of strategies towards a furtherintegration of policy areas. This Directive can also make animportant contribution to other areas of cooperation between
Member States, inter alia , the European spatial development
perspective (ESDP).
(17)An effective and coherent water policy must take account of thevulnerability of aquatic ecosystems located near the coast andestuaries or in gulfs or relatively closed seas, as their equilibriumis strongly influenced by the quality of inland waters flowinginto them. Protection of water status within river basins will
provide economic benefits by contributing towards the protection
of fish populations, including coastal fish populations.
(18)Community water policy requires a transparent, effective andcoherent legislative framework. The Community should providecommon principles and the overall framework for action. ThisDirective should provide for such a framework and coordinateand integrate, and, in a longer perspective, further develop the
overall principles and structures for protection and sustainable
use of water in the Community in accordance with the principlesof subsidiarity.
(19)This Directive aims at maintaining and improving the aquaticenvironment in the Community. This purpose is primarilyconcerned with the quality of the waters concerned. Control ofquantity is an ancillary element in securing good water quality
and therefore measures on quantity, serving the objective of
ensuring good quality, should also be established.
(20)The quantitative status of a body of groundwater may have animpact on the ecological quality of surface waters and terrestrialecosystems associated with that groundwater body.
(21)The Community and Member States are party to various interna-tional agreements containing important obligations on theprotection of marine waters from pollution, in particular the
Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the
Baltic Sea Area, signed in Helsinki on 9 April 1992 andapproved by Council Decision 94/157/EC(
1), the Convention
for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-EastAtlantic, signed in Paris on 22 September 1992 and approved byCouncil Decision 98/249/EC(
2), and the Convention for the
Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution, signed
in Barcelona on 16 February 1976 and approved by CouncilDecision 77/585/EEC(
3), and its Protocol for the Protection of
the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution from Land-BasedSources, signed in Athens on 17 May 1980 and approved by
Council Decision 83/101/EEC(
4). This Directive is to make a
contribution towards enabling the Community and MemberStates to meet those obligations.
(22)This Directive is to contribute to the progressive reduction ofemissions of hazardous substances to water.
(23)Common principles are needed in order to coordinate MemberStates' efforts to improve the protection of Community watersin terms of quantity and quality, to promote sustainable wateruse, to contribute to the control of transboundary water
problems, to protect aquatic ecosystems, and terrestrial ecosys-
tems and wetlands directly depending on them, and tosafeguard and develop the potential uses of Community waters.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 4
(1) OJ L 73, 16.3.1994, p. 19.
(2) OJ L 104, 3.4.1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 240, 19.9.1977, p 1.
(4) OJ L 67, 12.3.1983, p. 1.
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(24)Good water quality will contribute to securing the drinking water
supply for the population.
(25)Common definitions of the status of water in terms of quality
and, where relevant for the purpose of the environmental protec-tion, quantity should be established. Environmental objectives
should be set to ensure that good status of surface water and
groundwater is achieved throughout the Community and thatdeterioration in the status of waters is prevented at Communitylevel.
(26)Member States should aim to achieve the objective of at leastgood water status by defining and implementing the necessarymeasures within integrated programmes of measures, taking intoaccount existing Community requirements. Where good water
status already exists, it should be maintained. For groundwater,
in addition to the requirements of good status, any significantand sustained upward trend in the concentration of any pollutantshould be identified and reversed.
(27)The ultimate aim of this Directive is to achieve the eliminationof priority hazardous substances and contribute to achievingconcentrations in the marine environment near backgroundvalues for naturally occurring substances.
(28)Surface waters and groundwaters are in principle renewablenatural resources; in particular, the task of ensuring good statusof groundwater requires early action and stable long-term plan-ning of protective measures, owing to the natural time lag in itsformation and renewal. Such time lag for improvement should
be taken into account in timetables when establishing measures
for the achievement of good status of groundwater and reversingany significant and sustained upward trend in the concentrationof any pollutant in groundwater.
(29)In aiming to achieve the objectives set out in this Directive, andin establishing a programme of measures to that end, MemberStates may phase implementation of the programme of measuresin order to spread the costs of implementation.
(30)In order to ensure a full and consistent implementation of thisDirective any extensions of timescale should be made on thebasis of appropriate, evident and transparent criteria and be justi-fied by the Member States in the river basin management plans.
(31)In cases where a body of water is so affected by human activityor its natural condition is such that it may be unfeasible orunreasonably expensive to achieve good status, less stringent
environmental objectives may be set on the basis of appropriate,
evident and transparent criteria, and all practicable steps shouldbe taken to prevent any further deterioration of the status ofwaters.
(32)There may be grounds for exemptions from the requirement toprevent further deterioration or to achieve good status underspecific conditions, if the failure is the result of unforeseen orexceptional circumstances, in particular floods and droughts, or,for reasons of overriding public interest, of new modifications to
the physical characteristics of a surface water body or alterations
to the level of bodies of groundwater, provided that all practic-able steps are taken to mitigate the adverse impact on the statusof the body of water.
(33)The objective of achieving good water status should be pursuedfor each river basin, so that measures in respect of surface waterand groundwaters belonging to the same ecological, hydrologicaland hydrogeological system are coordinated.
(34)For the purposes of environmental protection there is a need fora greater integration of qualitative and quantitative aspects ofboth surface waters and groundwaters, taking into account thenatural flow conditions of water within the hydrological cycle.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 5
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(35)Within a river basin where use of water may have transboundary
effects, the requirements for the achievement of the environ-
mental objectives established under this Directive, and inparticular all programmes of measures, should be coordinatedfor the whole of the river basin district. For river basinsextending beyond the boundaries of the Community, MemberStates should endeavour to ensure the appropriate coordination
with the relevant non-member States. This Directive is to contri-
bute to the implementation of Community obligations underinternational conventions on water protection and management,notably the United Nations Convention on the protection anduse of transboundary water courses and international lakes,
approved by Council Decision 95/308/EC(
1) and any succeeding
agreements on its application.
(36)It is necessary to undertake analyses of the characteristics of a
river basin and the impacts of human activity as well as an
economic analysis of water use. The development in water statusshould be monitored by Member States on a systematic andcomparable basis throughout the Community. This informationis necessary in order to provide a sound basis for Member Statesto develop programmes of measures aimed at achieving the
objectives established under this Directive.
(37)Member States should identify waters used for the abstraction of
drinking water and ensure compliance with Council Directive
80/778/EEC of 15 July 1980 relating to the quality of water
intended for human consumption(2).
(38)The use of economic instruments by Member States may be
appropriate as part of a programme of measures. The principle
of recovery of the costs of water services, including environ-mental and resource costs associated with damage or negativeimpact on the aquatic environment should be taken into accountin accordance with, in particular, the polluter-pays principle. An
economic analysis of water services based on long-term forecasts
of supply and demand for water in the river basin district will benecessary for this purpose.
(39)There is a need to prevent or reduce the impact of incidents inwhich water is accidentally polluted. Measures with the aim ofdoing so should be included in the programme of measures.
(40)With regard to pollution prevention and control, Communitywater policy should be based on a combined approach usingcontrol of pollution at source through the setting of emissionlimit values and of environmental quality standards.
(41)For water quantity, overall principles should be laid down forcontrol on abstraction and impoundment in order to ensure theenvironmental sustainability of the affected water systems.
(42)Common environmental quality standards and emission limitvalues for certain groups or families of pollutants should belaid down as minimum requirements in Community legislation.Provisions for the adoption of such standards at Community
level should be ensured.
(43)Pollution through the discharge, emission or loss of priority
hazardous substances must cease or be phased out. The
European Parliament and the Council should, on a proposal
from the Commission, agree on the substances to be consideredfor action as a priority and on specific measures to be takenagainst pollution of water by those substances, taking intoaccount all significant sources and identifying the cost-effectiveand proportionate level and combination of controls.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 6
(1) OJ L 186, 5.8.1995, p. 42.
(2) OJ L 229, 30.8.1980, p. 11. Directive as last amended by Directive 98/83/
EC (OJ L 330, 5.12.1998, p. 32).
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(44)In identifying priority hazardous substances, account should be
taken of the precautionary principle, relying in particular on the
determination of any potentially adverse effects of the productand on a scientific assessment of the risk.
(45)Member States should adopt measures to eliminate pollution ofsurface water by the priority substances and progressively toreduce pollution by other substances which would otherwiseprevent Member States from achieving the objectives for thebodies of surface water.
(46)To ensure the participation of the general public including usersof water in the establishment and updating of river basinmanagement plans, it is necessary to provide proper information
of planned measures and to report on progress with their imple-
mentation with a view to the involvement of the general publicbefore final decisions on the necessary measures are adopted.
(47)This Directive should provide mechanisms to address obstaclesto progress in improving water status when these fall outsidethe scope of Community water legislation, with a view to devel-oping appropriate Community strategies for overcoming them.
(48)The Commission should present annually an updated plan forany initiatives which it intends to propose for the water sector.
(49)Technical specifications should be laid down to ensure acoherent approach in the Community as part of this Directive.Criteria for evaluation of water status are an important stepforward. Adaptation of certain technical elements to technical
development and the standardisation of monitoring, sampling
and analysis methods should be adopted by committee proce-dure. To promote a thorough understanding and consistentapplication of the criteria for characterisation of the river basindistricts and evaluation of water status, the Commission may
adopt guidelines on the application of these criteria.
(50)The measures necessary for the implementation of this Directiveshould be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/
468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for theexercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commis-sion(
1).
(51)The implementation of this Directive is to achieve a level ofprotection of waters at least equivalent to that provided in certainearlier acts, which should therefore be repealed once the relevantprovisions of this Directive have been fully implemented.
(52)The provisions of this Directive take over the framework forcontrol of pollution by dangerous substances established underDirective 76/464/EEC(
2). That Directive should therefore be
repealed once the relevant provisions of this Directive have
been fully implemented.
(53)Full implementation and enforcement of existing environmentallegislation for the protection of waters should be ensured. It isnecessary to ensure the proper application of the provisionsimplementing this Directive throughout the Community byappropriate penalties provided for in Member States' legislation.Such penalties should be effective, proportionate and dissuasive,2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 7
(1) OJ C 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.
(2) OJ L 129, 18.5.1976, p. 23. Directive as amended by Directive 91/692/EEC
(OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 48).
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HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 1
Purpose
The purpose of this Directive is to establish a framework for the
protection of inland surface waters, transitional waters, coastal watersand groundwater which:
(a) prevents further deterioration and protects and enhances the status
of aquatic ecosystems and, with regard to their water needs, terres-trial ecosystems and wetlands directly depending on the aquaticecosystems;
(b) promotes sustainable water use based on a long-term protection of
available water resources;
(c) aims at enhanced protection and improvement of the aquatic envir-
onment,inter alia , through specific measures for the progressive
reduction of discharges, emissions and losses of priority substances
and the cessation or phasing-out of discharges, emissions and losses
of the priority hazardous substances;
(d) ensures the progressive reduction of pollution of groundwater and
prevents its further pollution, and
(e) contributes to mitigating the effects of floods and droughtsand
thereby contributes to:
— the provision of the sufficient supply of good quality surface water
and groundwater as needed for sustainable, balanced and equitable
water use,
— a significant reduction in pollution of groundwater,— the protection of territorial and marine waters, and— achieving the objectives of relevant international agreements,
including those which aim to prevent and eliminate pollution ofthe marine environment, by Community action under Article 16(3)
to cease or phase out discharges, emissions and losses of priority
hazardous substances, with the ultimate aim of achieving concentra-tions in the marine environment near background values fornaturally occurring substances and close to zero for man-madesynthetic substances.
Article 2
Definitions
For the purposes of this Directive the following definitions shall apply:
1. ‘Surface water’means inland waters, except groundwater; transi-
tional waters and coastal waters, except in respect of chemicalstatus for which it shall also include territorial waters.
2. ‘Groundwater’means all water which is below the surface of the
ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with theground or subsoil.
3. ‘Inland water’means all standing or flowing water on the surface
of the land, and all groundwater on the landward side of the base-line from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured.
4. ‘River’means a body of inland water flowing for the most part on
the surface of the land but which may flow underground for partof its course.
5. ‘Lake’means a body of standing inland surface water.6. ‘Transitional waters’are bodies of surface water in the vicinity of
river mouths which are partly saline in character as a result oftheir proximity to coastal waters but which are substantially influ-enced by freshwater flows.
7. ‘Coastal water’means surface water on the landward side of a
line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mileon the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 8
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which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending
where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters.
8. ‘Artificial water body’means a body of surface water created by
human activity.
9. ‘Heavily modified water body’means a body of surface water
which as a result of physical alterations by human activity is
substantially changed in character, as designated by the MemberState in accordance with the provisions of Annex II.
10. ‘Body of surface water’means a discrete and significant element
of surface water such as a lake, a reservoir, a stream, river or
canal, part of a stream, river or canal, a transitional water or astretch of coastal water.
11. ‘Aquifer’means a subsurface layer or layers of rock or other
geological strata of sufficient porosity and permeability to allow
either a significant flow of groundwater or the abstraction ofsignificant quantities of groundwater.
12. ‘Body of groundwater’means a distinct volume of groundwater
within an aquifer or aquifers.
13. ‘River basin’means the area of land from which all surface run-off
flows through a sequence of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes
into the sea at a single river mouth, estuary or delta.
14. ‘Sub-basin’means the area of land from which all surface run-off
flows through a series of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes to aparticular point in a water course (normally a lake or a river
confluence).
15. ‘River basin district’means the area of land and sea, made up of
one or more neighbouring river basins together with their asso-ciated groundwaters and coastal waters, which is identified under
Article 3(1) as the main unit for management of river basins.
16. ‘Competent Authority’means an authority or authorities identified
under Article 3(2) or 3(3).
17. ‘Surface water status’is the general expression of the status of a
body of surface water, determined by the poorer of its ecologicalstatus and its chemical status.
18. ‘Good surface water status’means the status achieved by a surface
water body when both its ecological status and its chemical statusare at least ‘good’.
19. ‘Groundwater status’is the general expression of the status of a
body of groundwater, determined by the poorer of its quantitative
status and its chemical status.
20. ‘Good groundwater status’means the status achieved by a ground-
water body when both its quantitative status and its chemical
status are at least ‘good’.
21. ‘Ecological status’is an expression of the quality of the structure
and functioning of aquatic ecosystems associated with surfacewaters, classified in accordance with Annex V.
22. ‘Good ecological status’is the status of a body of surface water, so
classified in accordance with Annex V.
23. ‘Good ecological potential’is the status of a heavily modified or
an artificial body of water, so classified in accordance with the
relevant provisions of Annex V.
24. ‘Good surface water chemical status’means the chemical status
required to meet the environmental objectives for surface waters
established in Article 4(1)(a), that is the chemical status achievedby a body of surface water in which concentrations of pollutantsdo not exceed the environmental quality standards established inAnnex IX and under Article 16(7), and under other relevantCommunity legislation setting environmental quality standards at
Community level.
25. ‘Good groundwater chemical status’is the chemical status of a
body of groundwater, which meets all the conditions set out intable 2.3.2 of Annex V.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 9
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26. ‘Quantitative status’is an expression of the degree to which a
body of groundwater is affected by direct and indirect abstrac-tions.
27. ‘Available groundwater resource’means the long-term annual
average rate of overall recharge of the body of groundwater less
the long-term annual rate of flow required to achieve the ecolo-
gical quality objectives for associated surface waters specifiedunder Article 4, to avoid any significant diminution in the ecolo-gical status of such waters and to avoid any significant damage toassociated terrestrial ecosystems.
28. ‘Good quantitative status’is the status defined in table 2.1.2 of
Annex V.
29. ‘Hazardous substances’means substances or groups of substances
that are toxic, persistent and liable to bio-accumulate, and othersubstances or groups of substances which give rise to an equiva-
lent level of concern.
30. ‘Priority substances’means substances identified in accordance
with Article 16(2) and listed in Annex X. Among these substances
there are ‘priority hazardous substances’ which means substancesidentified in accordance with Article 16(3) and (6) for whichmeasures have to be taken in accordance with Article 16(1) and(8).
31. ‘Pollutant’means any substance liable to cause pollution, in parti-
cular those listed in Annex VIII.
32. ‘Direct discharge to groundwater’means discharge of pollutants
into groundwater without percolation throughout the soil orsubsoil.
33. ‘Pollution’means the direct or indirect introduction, as a result of
human activity, of substances or heat into the air, water or landwhich may be harmful to human health or the quality of aquatic
ecosystems or terrestrial ecosystems directly depending on aquatic
ecosystems, which result in damage to material property, or whichimpair or interfere with amenities and other legitimate uses of theenvironment.
34. ‘Environmental objectives’means the objectives set out in Article
4.
35. ‘Environmental quality standard’means the concentration of a
particular pollutant or group of pollutants in water, sediment orbiota which should not be exceeded in order to protect humanhealth and the environment.
36. ‘Combined approach’means the control of discharges and emis-
sions into surface waters according to the approach set out inArticle 10.
37. ‘Water intended for human consumption’has the same meaning as
under Directive 80/778/EEC, as amended by Directive 98/83/EC.
38. ‘Water services’means all services which provide, for households,
public institutions or any economic activity:
(a) abstraction, impoundment, storage, treatment and distribution
of surface water or groundwater,
(b) waste-water collection and treatment facilities which subse-
quently discharge into surface water.
39. ‘Water use’means water services together with any other activity
identified under Article 5 and Annex II having a significantimpact on the status of water.
This concept applies for the purposes of Article 1 and of the
economic analysis carried out according to Article 5 and AnnexIII, point (b).
40. ‘Emission limit values’means the mass, expressed in terms of
certain specific parameters, concentration and/or level of an emis-sion, which may not be exceeded during any one or more periodsof time. Emission limit values may also be laid down for certain2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 10
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groups, families or categories of substances, in particular for those
identified under Article 16.
The emission limit values for substances shall normally apply at
the point where the emissions leave the installation, dilution beingdisregarded when determining them. With regard to indirectreleases into water, the effect of a waste-water treatment plant
may be taken into account when determining the emission limit
values of the installations involved, provided that an equivalentlevel is guaranteed for protection of the environment as a wholeand provided that this does not lead to higher levels of pollutionin the environment.
41. ‘Emission controls’are controls requiring a specific emission
limitation, for instance an emission limit value, or otherwisespecifying limits or conditions on the effects, nature or other char-acteristics of an emission or operating conditions which affectemissions. Use of the term ‘emission control’ in this Directive in
respect of the provisions of any other Directive shall not be held
as reinterpreting those provisions in any respect.
Article 3
Coordination of administrative arrangements within river basin
districts
1. Member States shall identify the individual river basins lying
within their national territory and, for the purposes of this Directive,shall assign them to individual river basin districts. Small river basins
may be combined with larger river basins or joined with neighbouring
small basins to form individual river basin districts where appropriate.Where groundwaters do not fully follow a particular river basin, theyshall be identified and assigned to the nearest or most appropriate riverbasin district. Coastal waters shall be identified and assigned to the
nearest or most appropriate river basin district or districts.
2. Member States shall ensure the appropriate administrative
arrangements, including the identification of the appropriate competentauthority, for the application of the rules of this Directive within eachriver basin district lying within their territory.
3. Member States shall ensure that a river basin covering the terri-
tory of more than one Member State is assigned to an international
river basin district. At the request of the Member States involved, the
Commission shall act to facilitate the assigning to such internationalriver basin districts.
Each Member State shall ensure the appropriate administrative arrange-
ments, including the identification of the appropriate competentauthority, for the application of the rules of this Directive within the
portion of any international river basin district lying within its territory.
4. Member States shall ensure that the requirements of this Directive
for the achievement of the environmental objectives established underArticle 4, and in particular all programmes of measures are coordinatedfor the whole of the river basin district. For international river basindistricts the Member States concerned shall together ensure this coordi-
nation and may, for this purpose, use existing structures stemming from
international agreements. At the request of the Member Statesinvolved, the Commission shall act to facilitate the establishment ofthe programmes of measures.
5. Where a river basin district extends beyond the territory of the
Community, the Member State or Member States concerned shall
endeavour to establish appropriate coordination with the relevant non-
Member States, with the aim of achieving the objectives of this Direc-tive throughout the river basin district. Member States shall ensure theapplication of the rules of this Directive within their territory.
6. Member States may identify an existing national or international
body as competent authority for the purposes of this Directive.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 11
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7. Member States shall identify the competent authority by the date
mentioned in Article 24.
8. Member States shall provide the Commission with a list of their
competent authorities and of the competent authorities of all the inter-
national bodies in which they participate at the latest six months afterthe date mentioned in Article 24. For each competent authority theinformation set out in Annex I shall be provided.
9. Member States shall inform the Commission of any changes to
the information provided according to paragraph 8 within three monthsof the change coming into effect.
Article 4
Environmental objectives
1. In making operational the programmes of measures specified in
the river basin management plans:
(a) for surface waters
(i) Member States shall implement the necessary measures to
prevent deterioration of the status of all bodies of surfacewater, subject to the application of paragraphs 6 and 7 andwithout prejudice to paragraph 8;
(ii) Member States shall protect, enhance and restore all bodies of
surface water, subject to the application of subparagraph (iii)
for artificial and heavily modified bodies of water, with the
aim of achieving good surface water status at the latest 15years after the date of entry into force of this Directive, inaccordance with the provisions laid down in Annex V, subjectto the application of extensions determined in accordance withparagraph 4 and to the application of paragraphs 5, 6 and 7
without prejudice to paragraph 8;
(iii) Member States shall protect and enhance all artificial and
heavily modified bodies of water, with the aim of achieving
good ecological potential and good surface water chemicalstatus at the latest 15 years from the date of entry into forceof this Directive, in accordance with the provisions laid downin Annex V, subject to the application of extensions deter-
mined in accordance with paragraph 4 and to the application
of paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 without prejudice to paragraph 8;
(iv) Member States shall implement the necessary measures in
accordance with Article 16(1) and (8), with the aim of
progressively reducing pollution from priority substances andceasing or phasing out emissions, discharges and losses ofpriority hazardous substances
without prejudice to the relevant international agreements referred
to in Article 1 for the parties concerned;
(b) for groundwater
(i) Member States shall implement the measures necessary to
prevent or limit the input of pollutants into groundwater and
to prevent the deterioration of the status of all bodies of
groundwater, subject to the application of paragraphs 6 and 7and without prejudice to paragraph 8 of this Article andsubject to the application of Article 11(3)(j);
(ii) Member States shall protect, enhance and restore all bodies of
groundwater, ensure a balance between abstraction andrecharge of groundwater, with the aim of achieving goodgroundwater status at the latest 15 years after the date of entry
into force of this Directive, in accordance with the provisions
laid down in Annex V, subject to the application of extensionsdetermined in accordance with paragraph 4 and to the applica-tion of paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 without prejudice to paragraph 8of this Article and subject to the application of Article11(3)(j);
(iii) Member States shall implement the measures necessary to
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concentration of any pollutant resulting from the impact of
human activity in order progressively to reduce pollution ofgroundwater.
Measures to achieve trend reversal shall be implemented in
accordance with paragraphs 2, 4 and 5 of Article 17, takinginto account the applicable standards set out in relevantCommunity legislation, subject to the application of para-graphs 6 and 7 and without prejudice to paragraph 8;
(c) for protected areas
Member States shall achieve compliance with any standards and
objectives at the latest 15 years after the date of entry into force
of this Directive, unless otherwise specified in the Community
legislation under which the individual protected areas have beenestablished.
2. Where more than one of the objectives under paragraph 1 relates
to a given body of water, the most stringent shall apply.
3. Member States may designate a body of surface water as artificial
or heavily modified, when:
(a) the changes to the hydromorphological characteristics of that body
which would be necessary for achieving good ecological statuswould have significant adverse effects on:
(i) the wider environment;
(ii) navigation, including port facilities, or recreation;
(iii) activities for the purposes of which water is stored, such as
drinking-water supply, power generation or irrigation;
(iv) water regulation, flood protection, land drainage, or
(v) other equally important sustainable human development activ-
ities;
(b) the beneficial objectives served by the artificial or modified charac-
teristics of the water body cannot, for reasons of technical
feasibility or disproportionate costs, reasonably be achieved byother means, which are a significantly better environmental option.
Such designation and the reasons for it shall be specifically
mentioned in the river basin management plans required underArticle 13 and reviewed every six years.
4. The deadlines established under paragraph 1 may be extended for
the purposes of phased achievement of the objectives for bodies ofwater, provided that no further deterioration occurs in the status of theaffected body of water when all of the following conditions are met:
(a) Member States determine that all necessary improvements in the
status of bodies of water cannot reasonably be achieved within thetimescales set out in that paragraph for at least one of the followingreasons:
(i) the scale of improvements required can only be achieved in
phases exceeding the timescale, for reasons of technical feasi-bility;
(ii) completing the improvements within the timescale would be
disproportionately expensive;
(iii) natural conditions do not allow timely improvement in the
status of the body of water.
(b) Extension of the deadline, and the reasons for it, are specifically set
out and explained in the river basin management plan required
under Article 13.
(c) Extensions shall be limited to a maximum of two further updates of
the river basin management plan except in cases where the natural
conditions are such that the objectives cannot be achieved withinthis period.
(d) A summary of the measures required under Article 11 which are
envisaged as necessary to bring the bodies of water progressivelyto the required status by the extended deadline, the reasons forany significant delay in making these measures operational, and2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 13
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the expected timetable for their implementation are set out in the
river basin management plan. A review of the implementation ofthese measures and a summary of any additional measures shall
be included in updates of the river basin management plan.
5. Member States may aim to achieve less stringent environmental
objectives than those required under paragraph 1 for specific bodies of
water when they are so affected by human activity, as determined in
accordance with Article 5(1), or their natural condition is such thatthe achievement of these objectives would be infeasible or dispropor-tionately expensive, and all the following conditions are met:
(a) the environmental and socioeconomic needs served by such human
activity cannot be achieved by other means, which are a signifi-cantly better environmental option not entailing disproportionatecosts;
(b) Member States ensure,
— for surface water, the highest ecological and chemical status
possible is achieved, given impacts that could not reasonablyhave been avoided due to the nature of the human activity orpollution,
— for groundwater, the least possible changes to good ground-
water status, given impacts that could not reasonably havebeen avoided due to the nature of the human activity or pollu-tion;
(c) no further deterioration occurs in the status of the affected body of
water;
(d) the establishment of less stringent environmental objectives, and
the reasons for it, are specifically mentioned in the river basin
management plan required under Article 13 and those objectives
are reviewed every six years.
6. Temporary deterioration in the status of bodies of water shall not
be in breach of the requirements of this Directive if this is the result of
circumstances of natural cause or force majeure which are exceptional
or could not reasonably have been foreseen, in particular extremefloods and prolonged droughts, or the result of circumstances due toaccidents which could not reasonably have been foreseen, when all ofthe following conditions have been met:
(a) all practicable steps are taken to prevent further deterioration in
status and in order not to compromise the achievement of theobjectives of this Directive in other bodies of water not affected
by those circumstances;
(b) the conditions under which circumstances that are exceptional or
that could not reasonably have been foreseen may be declared,
including the adoption of the appropriate indicators, are stated inthe river basin management plan;
(c) the measures to be taken under such exceptional circumstances are
included in the programme of measures and will not compromisethe recovery of the quality of the body of water once the circum-stances are over;
(d) the effects of the circumstances that are exceptional or that could
not reasonably have been foreseen are reviewed annually and,
subject to the reasons set out in paragraph 4(a), all practicable
measures are taken with the aim of restoring the body of water toits status prior to the effects of those circumstances as soon asreasonably practicable, and
(e) a summary of the effects of the circumstances and of such
measures taken or to be taken in accordance with paragraphs (a)and (d) are included in the next update of the river basin manage-
ment plan.
7. Member States will not be in breach of this Directive when:
— failure to achieve good groundwater status, good ecological status
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the result of new modifications to the physical characteristics of a
surface water body or alterations to the level of bodies of ground-water, or
— failure to prevent deterioration from high status to good status of a
body of surface water is the result of new sustainable human devel-
opment activitiesand all the following conditions are met:
(a) all practicable steps are taken to mitigate the adverse impact on the
status of the body of water;
(b) the reasons for those modifications or alterations are specifically
set out and explained in the river basin management plan requiredunder Article 13 and the objectives are reviewed every six years;
(c) the reasons for those modifications or alterations are of overriding
public interest and/or the benefits to the environment and to societyof achieving the objectives set out in paragraph 1 are outweighedby the benefits of the new modifications or alterations to humanhealth, to the maintenance of human safety or to sustainable devel-
opment, and
(d) the beneficial objectives served by those modifications or altera-
tions of the water body cannot for reasons of technical feasibility
or disproportionate cost be achieved by other means, which are a
significantly better environmental option.
8. When applying paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, a Member State shall
ensure that the application does not permanently exclude or compro-mise the achievement of the objectives of this Directive in other
bodies of water within the same river basin district and is consistent
with the implementation of other Community environmental legisla-tion.
9. Steps must be taken to ensure that the application of the new
provisions, including the application of paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7,guarantees at least the same level of protection as the existing Commu-
nity legislation.
Article 5
Characteristics of the river basin district, review of the environ-
mental impact of human activity and economic analysis of water
use
1. Each Member State shall ensure that for each river basin district
or for the portion of an international river basin district falling within
its territory:
— an analysis of its characteristics,
— a review of the impact of human activity on the status of surface
waters and on groundwater, and
— an economic analysis of water use
is undertaken according to the technical specifications set out in
Annexes II and III and that it is completed at the latest four years afterthe date of entry into force of this Directive.
2. The analyses and reviews mentioned under paragraph 1 shall be
reviewed, and if necessary updated at the latest 13 years after the date
of entry into force of this Directive and every six years thereafter.
Article 6
Register of protected areas
1. Member States shall ensure the establishment of a register or
registers of all areas lying within each river basin district which have
been designated as requiring special protection under specific Commu-
nity legislation for the protection of their surface water andgroundwater or for the conservation of habitats and species directlydepending on water. They shall ensure that the register is completedat the latest four years after the date of entry into force of this Direc-tive.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 15
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2. The register or registers shall include all bodies of water identi-
fied under Article 7(1) and all protected areas covered by Annex IV.
3. For each river basin district, the register or registers of protected
areas shall be kept under review and up to date.
Article 7
Waters used for the abstraction of drinking water
1. Member States shall identify, within each river basin district:
— all bodies of water used for the abstraction of water intended for
human consumption providing more than 10 m3a day as an average
or serving more than 50 persons, and
— those bodies of water intended for such future use.
Member States shall monitor, in accordance with Annex V, those
bodies of water which according to Annex V, provide more than
100 m3a day as an average.
2. For each body of water identified under paragraph 1, in addition
to meeting the objectives of Article 4 in accordance with the require-ments of this Directive, for surface water bodies including the quality
standards established at Community level under Article 16, Member
States shall ensure that under the water treatment regime applied, andin accordance with Community legislation, the resulting water willmeet the requirements of Directive 80/778/EEC as amended by Direc-tive 98/83/EC.
3. Member States shall ensure the necessary protection for the
bodies of water identified with the aim of avoiding deterioration intheir quality in order to reduce the level of purification treatment
required in the production of drinking water. Member States may estab-
lish safeguard zones for those bodies of water.
Article 8
Monitoring of surface water status, groundwater status and
protected areas
1. Member States shall ensure the establishment of programmes for
the monitoring of water status in order to establish a coherent andcomprehensive overview of water status within each river basindistrict:
— for surface waters such programmes shall cover:
(i) the volume and level or rate of flow to the extent relevant for
ecological and chemical status and ecological potential, and
(ii) the ecological and chemical status and ecological potential;
— for groundwaters such programmes shall cover monitoring of the
chemical and quantitative status,
— for protected areas the above programmes shall be supplemented by
those specifications contained in Community legislation underwhich the individual protected areas have been established.
2. These programmes shall be operational at the latest six years after
the date of entry into force of this Directive unless otherwise specifiedin the legislation concerned. Such monitoring shall be in accordancewith the requirements of Annex V.
3. Technical specifications and standardised methods for analysis
and monitoring of water status shall be laid down in accordance withthe procedure laid down in Article 21.
Article 9
Recovery of costs for water services
1. Member States shall take account of the principle of recovery of
the costs of water services, including environmental and resource costs,having regard to the economic analysis conducted according to AnnexIII, and in accordance in particular with the polluter pays principle.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 16
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Member States shall ensure by 2010
— that water-pricing policies provide adequate incentives for users to
use water resources efficiently, and thereby contribute to the envir-
onmental objectives of this Directive,
— an adequate contribution of the different water uses, disaggregated
into at least industry, households and agriculture, to the recovery ofthe costs of water services, based on the economic analysisconducted according to Annex III and taking account of the polluter
pays principle.
Member States may in so doing have regard to the social, environ-
mental and economic effects of the recovery as well as the geographic
and climatic conditions of the region or regions affected.
2. Member States shall report in the river basin management plans
on the planned steps towards implementing paragraph 1 which will
contribute to achieving the environmental objectives of this Directive
and on the contribution made by the various water uses to the recoveryof the costs of water services.
3. Nothing in this Article shall prevent the funding of particular
preventive or remedial measures in order to achieve the objectives ofthis Directive.
4. Member States shall not be in breach of this Directive if they
decide in accordance with established practices not to apply the provi-sions of paragraph 1, second sentence, and for that purpose the relevantprovisions of paragraph 2, for a given water-use activity, where thisdoes not compromise the purposes and the achievement of the objec-tives of this Directive. Member States shall report the reasons for not
fully applying paragraph 1, second sentence, in the river basin manage-
ment plans.
Article 10
The combined approach for point and diffuse sources
1. Member States shall ensure that all discharges referred to in para-
graph 2 into surface waters are controlled according to the combinedapproach set out in this Article.
2. Member States shall ensure the establishment and/or implementa-
tion of:
(a) the emission controls based on best available techniques, or
(b) the relevant emission limit values, or
(c) in the case of diffuse impacts the controls including, as appropriate,
best environmental practicesset out in:
— Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning inte-
grated pollution prevention and control(
1),
— Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban
waste-water treatment(2),
— Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning
the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates fromagricultural sources(
3),
— the Directives adopted pursuant to Article 16 of this Directive,
— the Directives listed in Annex IX,
— any other relevant Community legislation
at the latest 12 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive,
unless otherwise specified in the legislation concerned.
3. Where a quality objective or quality standard, whether established
pursuant to this Directive, in the Directives listed in Annex IX, or2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 17
(1) OJ L 257, 10.10.1996, p. 26.
(2) OJ L 135, 30.5.1991, p. 40. Directive as amended by Commission Directive
98/15/EC (OJ L 67, 7.3.1998, p. 29).
(3) OJ L 375, 31.12.1991, p. 1.
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pursuant to any other Community legislation, requires stricter condi-
tions than those which would result from the application of paragraph2, more stringent emission controls shall be set accordingly.
Article 11
Programme of measures
1. Each Member State shall ensure the establishment for each river
basin district, or for the part of an international river basin district
within its territory, of a programme of measures, taking account of the
results of the analyses required under Article 5, in order to achieve theobjectives established under Article 4. Such programmes of measuresmay make reference to measures following from legislation adopted atnational level and covering the whole of the territory of a MemberState. Where appropriate, a Member State may adopt measures applic-
able to all river basin districts and/or the portions of international river
basin districts falling within its territory.
2. Each programme of measures shall include the ‘basic’ measures
specified in paragraph 3 and, where necessary, ‘supplementary’measures.
3. ‘Basic measures’ are the minimum requirements to be complied
with and shall consist of:
(a) those measures required to implement Community legislation for
the protection of water, including measures required under the
legislation specified in Article 10 and in part A of Annex VI;
(b) measures deemed appropriate for the purposes of Article 9;
(c) measures to promote an efficient and sustainable water use in order
to avoid compromising the achievement of the objectives specifiedin Article 4;
(d) measures to meet the requirements of Article 7, including measures
to safeguard water quality in order to reduce the level of purifica-tion treatment required for the production of drinking water;
(e) controls over the abstraction of fresh surface water and ground-
water, and impoundment of fresh surface water, including aregister or registers of water abstractions and a requirement of prior
authorisation for abstraction and impoundment. These controls shall
be periodically reviewed and, where necessary, updated. MemberStates can exempt from these controls, abstractions or impound-ments which have no significant impact on water status;
(f) controls, including a requirement for prior authorisation of artificial
recharge or augmentation of groundwater bodies. The water usedmay be derived from any surface water or groundwater, providedthat the use of the source does not compromise the achievement
of the environmental objectives established for the source or the
recharged or augmented body of groundwater. These controls shallbe periodically reviewed and, where necessary, updated;
(g) for point source discharges liable to cause pollution, a requirement
for prior regulation, such as a prohibition on the entry of pollutantsinto water, or for prior authorisation, or registration based ongeneral binding rules, laying down emission controls for the pollu-tants concerned, including controls in accordance with Articles 10and 16. These controls shall be periodically reviewed and, where
necessary, updated;
(h) for diffuse sources liable to cause pollution, measures to prevent or
control the input of pollutants. Controls may take the form of a
requirement for prior regulation, such as a prohibition on the entry
of pollutants into water, prior authorisation or registration based ongeneral binding rules where such a requirement is not otherwiseprovided for under Community legislation. These controls shall beperiodically reviewed and, where necessary, updated;
(i) for any other significant adverse impacts on the status of water
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water are consistent with the achievement of the required ecolo-
gical status or good ecological potential for bodies of waterdesignated as artificial or heavily modified. Controls for this
purpose may take the form of a requirement for prior authorisation
or registration based on general binding rules where such a require-ment is not otherwise provided for under Community legislation.Such controls shall be periodically reviewed and, where necessary,updated;
(j) a prohibition of direct discharges of pollutants into groundwater
subject to the following provisions:
Member States may authorise reinjection into the same aquifer of
water used for geothermal purposes.
They may also authorise, specifying the conditions for:
— injection of water containing substances resulting from the
operations for exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons ormining activities, and injection of water for technical reasons,
into geological formations from which hydrocarbons or other
substances have been extracted or into geological formationswhich for natural reasons are permanently unsuitable for otherpurposes. Such injections shall not contain substances otherthan those resulting from the above operations,
— reinjection of pumped groundwater from mines and quarries or
associated with the construction or maintenance of civil engi-
neering works,
— injection of natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for
storage purposes into geological formations which for naturalreasons are permanently unsuitable for other purposes,
— injection of natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) for
storage purposes into other geological formations where there
is an overriding need for security of gas supply, and where the
injection is such as to prevent any present or future danger ofdeterioration in the quality of any receiving groundwater,
— construction, civil engineering and building works and similar
activities on, or in the ground which come into contact withgroundwater. For these purposes, Member States may determine
that such activities are to be treated as having been authorised
provided that they are conducted in accordance with generalbinding rules developed by the Member State in respect ofsuch activities,
— discharges of small quantities of substances for scientific
purposes for characterisation, protection or remediation of waterbodies limited to the amount strictly necessary for the purposes
concerned
provided such discharges do not compromise the achievement of
the environmental objectives established for that body of ground-water;
(k) in accordance with action taken pursuant to Article 16, measures to
eliminate pollution of surface waters by those substances specifiedin the list of priority substances agreed pursuant to Article 16(2)and to progressively reduce pollution by other substances which
would otherwise prevent Member States from achieving the objec-
tives for the bodies of surface waters as set out in Article 4;
(l) any measures required to prevent significant losses of pollutants
from technical installations, and to prevent and/or to reduce theimpact of accidental pollution incidents for example as a result offloods, including through systems to detect or give warning of suchevents including, in the case of accidents which could not reason-ably have been foreseen, all appropriate measures to reduce the risk
to aquatic ecosystems.
4. ‘Supplementary’ measures are those measures designed and
implemented in addition to the basic measures, with the aim ofachieving the objectives established pursuant to Article 4. Part B ofAnnex VI contains a non-exclusive list of such measures.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 19
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Member States may also adopt further supplementary measures in order
to provide for additional protection or improvement of the waterscovered by this Directive, including in implementation of the relevant
international agreements referred to in Article 1.
5. Where monitoring or other data indicate that the objectives set
under Article 4 for the body of water are unlikely to be achieved, theMember State shall ensure that:
— the causes of the possible failure are investigated,
— relevant permits and authorisations are examined and reviewed as
appropriate,
— the monitoring programmes are reviewed and adjusted as appro-
priate, and
— additional measures as may be necessary in order to achieve those
objectives are established, including, as appropriate, the establish-
ment of stricter environmental quality standards following the
procedures laid down in Annex V.
Where those causes are the result of circumstances of natural cause or
force majeure which are exceptional and could not reasonably have
been foreseen, in particular extreme floods and prolonged droughts,the Member State may determine that additional measures are not prac-
ticable, subject to Article 4(6).
6. In implementing measures pursuant to paragraph 3, Member
States shall take all appropriate steps not to increase pollution ofmarine waters. Without prejudice to existing legislation, the applicationof measures taken pursuant to paragraph 3 may on no account lead,either directly or indirectly to increased pollution of surface waters.
This requirement shall not apply where it would result in increased
pollution of the environment as a whole.
7. The programmes of measures shall be established at the latest
nine years after the date of entry into force of this Directive and allthe measures shall be made operational at the latest 12 years after thatdate.
8. The programmes of measures shall be reviewed, and if necessary
updated at the latest 15 years after the date of entry into force of this
Directive and every six years thereafter. Any new or revised measuresestablished under an updated programme shall be made operationalwithin three years of their establishment.
Article 12
Issues which can not be dealt with at Member State level
1. Where a Member State identifies an issue which has an impact on
the management of its water but cannot be resolved by that MemberState, it may report the issue to the Commission and any other Member
State concerned and may make recommendations for the resolution of
it.
2. The Commission shall respond to any report or recommendations
from Member States within a period of six months.
Article 13
River basin management plans
1. Member States shall ensure that a river basin management plan is
produced for each river basin district lying entirely within their terri-tory.
2. In the case of an international river basin district falling entirely
within the Community, Member States shall ensure coordination with
the aim of producing a single international river basin managementplan. Where such an international river basin management plan is notproduced, Member States shall produce river basin management planscovering at least those parts of the international river basin districtfalling within their territory to achieve the objectives of this Directive.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 20
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3. In the case of an international river basin district extending
beyond the boundaries of the Community, Member States shall endea-vour to produce a single river basin management plan, and, where this
is not possible, the plan shall at least cover the portion of the interna-
tional river basin district lying within the territory of the Member Stateconcerned.
4. The river basin management plan shall include the information
detailed in Annex VII.
5. River basin management plans may be supplemented by the
production of more detailed programmes and management plans for
sub-basin, sector, issue, or water type, to deal with particular aspectsof water management. Implementation of these measures shall notexempt Member States from any of their obligations under the rest ofthis Directive.
6. River basin management plans shall be published at the latest
nine years after the date of entry into force of this Directive.
7. River basin management plans shall be reviewed and updated at
the latest 15 years after the date of entry into force of this Directiveand every six years thereafter.
Article 14
Public information and consultation
1. Member States shall encourage the active involvement of all
interested parties in the implementation of this Directive, in particularin the production, review and updating of the river basin managementplans. Member States shall ensure that, for each river basin district,they publish and make available for comments to the public, including
users:
(a) a timetable and work programme for the production of the plan,
including a statement of the consultation measures to be taken, at
least three years before the beginning of the period to which the
plan refers;
(b) an interim overview of the significant water management issues
identified in the river basin, at least two years before the beginningof the period to which the plan refers;
(c) draft copies of the river basin management plan, at least one year
before the beginning of the period to which the plan refers.
On request, access shall be given to background documents and infor-
mation used for the development of the draft river basin managementplan.
2. Member States shall allow at least six months to comment in
writing on those documents in order to allow active involvement andconsultation.
3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall apply equally to updated river basin
management plans.
Article 15
Reporting
1. Member States shall send copies of the river basin management
plans and all subsequent updates to the Commission and to any otherMember State concerned within three months of their publication:
(a) for river basin districts falling entirely within the territory of a
Member State, all river management plans covering that nationalterritory and published pursuant to Article 13;
(b) for international river basin districts, at least the part of the river
basin management plans covering the territory of the MemberState.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 21
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2. Member States shall submit summary reports of:
— the analyses required under Article 5, and
— the monitoring programmes designed under Article 8
undertaken for the purposes of the first river basin management plan
within three months of their completion.
3. Member States shall, within three years of the publication of each
river basin management plan or update under Article 13, submit an
interim report describing progress in the implementation of the plannedprogramme of measures.
Article 16
Strategies against pollution of water
1. The European Parliament and the Council shall adopt specific
measures against pollution of water by individual pollutants or groupsof pollutants presenting a significant risk to or via the aquatic environ-ment, including such risks to waters used for the abstraction ofdrinking water. For those pollutants measures shall be aimed at theprogressive reduction and, for priority hazardous substances, as defined
in Article 2(30), at the cessation or phasing-out of discharges, emis-
sions and losses. Such measures shall be adopted acting on theproposals presented by the Commission in accordance with the proce-dures laid down in the Treaty.
2. The Commission shall submit a proposal setting out a list of
priority substances selected amongst those which present a significant
risk to or via the aquatic environment. Substances shall be prioritisedfor action on the basis of risk to or via the aquatic environment, iden-tified by:
(a) risk assessment carried out under Council Regulation (EEC) No
793/93(
1), Council Directive 91/414/EEC(2), and Directive 98/8/
EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(3), or
(b) targeted risk-based assessment (following the methodology of
Regulation (EEC) No 793/93) focusing solely on aquatic ecotoxi-
city and on human toxicity via the aquatic environment.Whennecessary in order to meet the timetable laid down in paragraph 4,substances shall be prioritised for action on the basis of risk to, orvia the aquatic environment, identified by a simplified risk-basedassessment procedure based on scientific principles taking parti-
cular account of:
— evidence regarding the intrinsic hazard of the substance concerned,
and in particular its aquatic ecotoxicity and human toxicity via
aquatic exposure routes, and
— evidence from monitoring of widespread environmental contamina-
tion, and
— other proven factors which may indicate the possibility of wide-
spread environmental contamination, such as production or usevolume of the substance concerned, and use patterns.
3. The Commission's proposal shall also identify the priority hazar-
dous substances. In doing so, the Commission shall take into account
the selection of substances of concern undertaken in the relevantCommunity legislation regarding hazardous substances or relevantinternational agreements.
4. The Commission shall review the adopted list of priority
substances at the latest four years after the date of entry into force of
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(1) OJ L 84, 5.4.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 98/47/EC
(OJ L 191, 7.7.1998, p. 50).
(3) OJ L 123, 24.4.1998, p. 1.
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5. In preparing its proposal, the Commission shall take account of
recommendations from the Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxi-city and the Environment, Member States, the European Parliament, the
European Environment Agency, Community research programmes,
international organisations to which the Community is a party,European business organisations including those representing smalland medium-sized enterprises, European environmental organisations,and of other relevant information which comes to its attention.
6. For the priority substances, the Commission shall submit propo-
sals of controls for:
— the progressive reduction of discharges, emissions and losses of the
substances concerned, and, in particular
— the cessation or phasing-out of discharges, emissions and losses of
the substances as identified in accordance with paragraph 3,including an appropriate timetable for doing so. The timetable shallnot exceed 20 years after the adoption of these proposals by the
European Parliament and the Council in accordance with the provi-
sions of this Article.
In doing so it shall identify the appropriate cost-effective and propor-
tionate level and combination of product and process controls for bothpoint and diffuse sources and take account of Community-wideuniform emission limit values for process controls. Where appropriate,action at Community level for process controls may be established on a
sector-by-sector basis. Where product controls include a review of the
relevant authorisations issued under Directive 91/414/EEC and Direc-tive 98/8/EC, such reviews shall be carried out in accordance with theprovisions of those Directives. Each proposal for controls shall specifyarrangements for their review, updating and for assessment of their
effectiveness.
7. The Commission shall submit proposals for quality standards
applicable to the concentrations of the priority substances in surfacewater, sediments or biota.
8. The Commission shall submit proposals, in accordance with para-
graphs 6 and 7, and at least for emission controls for point sources andenvironmental quality standards within two years of the inclusion ofthe substance concerned on the list of priority substances. For
substances included in the first list of priority substances, in the
absence of agreement at Community level six years after the date ofentry into force of this Directive, Member States shall establish envir-onmental quality standards for these substances for all surface watersaffected by discharges of those substances, and controls on the prin-cipal sources of such discharges, based, inter alia , on consideration of
all technical reduction options. For substances subsequently included in
the list of priority substances, in the absence of agreement at Commu-nity level, Member States shall take such action five years after thedate of inclusion in the list.
9. The Commission may prepare strategies against pollution of
water by any other pollutants or groups of pollutants, including any
pollution which occurs as a result of accidents.
10. In preparing its proposals under paragraphs 6 and 7, the
Commission shall also review all the Directives listed in Annex IX. Itshall propose, by the deadline in paragraph 8, a revision of the controlsin Annex IX for all those substances which are included in the list ofpriority substances and shall propose the appropriate measuresincluding the possible repeal of the controls under Annex IX for all
other substances.
All the controls in Annex IX for which revisions are proposed shall be
repealed by the date of entry into force of those revisions.
11. The list of priority substances of substances mentioned in para-
graphs 2 and 3 proposed by the Commission shall, on its adoption bythe European Parliament and the Council, become Annex X to thisDirective. Its revision mentioned in paragraph 4 shall follow the sameprocedure.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 23
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Article 17
Strategies to prevent and control pollution of groundwater
1. The European Parliament and the Council shall adopt specific
measures to prevent and control groundwater pollution. Such measuresshall be aimed at achieving the objective of good groundwaterchemical status in accordance with Article 4(1)(b) and shall beadopted, acting on the proposal presented within two years after the
entry into force of this Directive, by the Commission in accordance
with the procedures laid down in the Treaty.
2. In proposing measures the Commission shall have regard to the
analysis carried out according to Article 5 and Annex II. Suchmeasures shall be proposed earlier if data are available and shallinclude:
(a) criteria for assessing good groundwater chemical status, in accor-
dance with Annex II.2.2 and Annex V 2.3.2 and 2.4.5;
(b) criteria for the identification of significant and sustained upward
trends and for the definition of starting points for trend reversalsto be used in accordance with Annex V 2.4.4.
3. Measures resulting from the application of paragraph 1 shall be
included in the programmes of measures required under Article 11.
4. In the absence of criteria adopted under paragraph 2 at Commu-
nity level, Member States shall establish appropriate criteria at thelatest five years after the date of entry into force of this Directive.
5. In the absence of criteria adopted under paragraph 4 at national
level, trend reversal shall take as its starting point a maximum of 75 %
of the level of the quality standards set out in existing Community
legislation applicable to groundwater.
Article 18
Commission report
1. The Commission shall publish a report on the implementation of
this Directive at the latest 12 years after the date of entry into force of
this Directive and every six years thereafter, and shall submit it to the
European Parliament and to the Council.
2. The report shall include the following:
(a) a review of progress in the implementation of the Directive;
(b) a review of the status of surface water and groundwater in the
Community undertaken in coordination with the European Environ-ment Agency;
(c) a survey of the river basin management plans submitted in accor-
dance with Article 15, including suggestions for the improvementof future plans;
(d) a summary of the response to each of the reports or recommenda-
tions to the Commission made by Member States pursuant toArticle 12;
(e) a summary of any proposals, control measures and strategies devel-
oped under Article 16;
(f) a summary of the responses to comments made by the European
Parliament and the Council on previous implementation reports.
3. The Commission shall also publish a report on progress in imple-
mentation based on the summary reports that Member States submitunder Article 15(2), and submit it to the European Parliament and the
Member States, at the latest two years after the dates referred to in
Articles 5 and 8.
4. The Commission shall, within three years of the publication of
each report under paragraph 1, publish an interim report describingprogress in implementation on the basis of the interim reports of the2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 24
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Member States as mentioned in Article 15(3). This shall be submitted
to the European Parliament and to the Council.
5. The Commission shall convene when appropriate, in line with the
reporting cycle, a conference of interested parties on Community waterpolicy from each of the Member States, to comment on the Commis-sion's implementation reports and to share experiences.
Participants should include representatives from the competent authori-
ties, the European Parliament, NGOs, the social and economic partners,
consumer bodies, academics and other experts.
Article 19
Plans for future Community measures
1. Once a year, the Commission shall for information purposes
present to the Committee referred to in Article 21 an indicative planof measures having an impact on water legislation which it intends to
propose in the near future, including any emerging from the proposals,
control measures and strategies developed under Article 16. TheCommission shall make the first such presentation at the latest twoyears after the date of entry into force of this Directive.
2. The Commission will review this Directive at the latest 19 years
after the date of its entry into force and will propose any necessary
amendments to it.
Article 20
Technical adaptations to the Directive
1. Annexes I, III and section 1.3.6 of Annex V may be adapted to
scientific and technical progress in accordance with the procedureslaid down in Article 21, taking account of the periods for review and
updating of the river basin management plans as referred to in Article
13. Where necessary, the Commission may adopt guidelines on theimplementation of Annexes II and V in accordance with the procedureslaid down in Article 21.
2. For the purpose of transmission and processing of data, including
statistical and cartographic data, technical formats for the purpose of
paragraph 1 may be adopted in accordance with the procedures laiddown in Article 21.
Article 21
Regulatory committee
1. The Commission shall be assisted by a committee (hereinafter
referred to as ‘the Committee’).
2. Where reference is made to this Article, Articles 5 and 7 of Deci-
sion 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions ofArticle 8 thereof.
The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be
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3. The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.
Article 22
Repeals and transitional provisions
1. The following shall be repealed with effect from seven years after
the date of entry into force of this Directive:
— Directive 75/440/EEC of 16 June 1975 concerning the quality
required of surface water intended for the abstraction of drinkingwater in the Member States(
1),
— Council Decision 77/795/EEC of 12 December 1977 establishing a
common procedure for the exchange of information on the qualityof surface freshwater in the Community(
2),
— Council Directive 79/869/EEC of 9 October 1979 concerning the
methods of measurement and frequencies of sampling and analysisof surface water intended for the abstraction of drinking waters inthe Member States(
3).
2. The following shall be repealed with effect from 13 years after
the date of entry into force of this Directive:
— Council Directive 78/659/EEC of 18 July 1978 on the quality of
freshwaters needing protection or improvement in order to support
fish life(4),
— Council Directive 79/923/EEC of 30 October 1979 on the quality
required of shellfish waters(5),
— Council Directive 80/68/EEC of 17 December 1979 on the protec-
tion of groundwater against pollution caused by certain dangeroussubstances,
— Directive 76/464/EEC, with the exception of Article 6, which shall
be repealed with effect from the entry into force of this Directive.
3. The following transitional provisions shall apply for Directive 76/
464/EEC:
(a) the list of priority substances adopted under Article 16 of this
Directive shall replace the list of substances prioritised in theCommission communication to the Council of 22 June 1982;
(b) for the purposes of Article 7 of Directive 76/464/EEC, Member
States may apply the principles for the identification of pollution
problems and the substances causing them, the establishment of
quality standards, and the adoption of measures, laid down in thisDirective.
4. The environmental objectives in Article 4 and environmental
quality standards established in Annex IX and pursuant to Article16(7), and by Member States under Annex V for substances not onthe list of priority substances and under Article 16(8) in respect ofpriority substances for which Community standards have not been set,
shall be regarded as environmental quality standards for the purposes
of point 7 of Article 2 and Article 10 of Directive 96/61/EC.
5. Where a substance on the list of priority substances adopted under
Article 16 is not included in Annex VIII to this Directive or in AnnexIII to Directive 96/61/EC, it shall be added thereto.
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(1) OJ L 194, 25.7.1975, p. 26. Directive as last amended by Directive 91/692/
EEC.
(2) OJ L 334, 24.12.1977, p. 29. Decision as last amended by the 1994 Act of
Accession.
(3) OJ L 271, 29.10.1979, p. 44. Directive as last amended by the 1994 Act of
Accession.
(4) OJ L 222, 14.8.1978, p. 1. Directive as last amended by the 1994 Act of
Accession.
(5) OJ L 281, 10.11.1979, p. 47. Directive as amended by Directive 91/692/
EEC.
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shall, as a minimum, give effect to quality standards at least as strin-
gent as those required to implement Directive 76/464/EEC.
Article 23
Penalties
Member States shall determine penalties applicable to breaches of the
national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive. The penalties
thus provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.
Article 24
Implementation
1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and
administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive at
the latest 22 December 2003. They shall forthwith inform the Commis-sion thereof.
When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain a refer-
ence to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a reference onthe occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such
a reference shall be laid down by the Member States.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the texts of
the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the fieldgoverned by this Directive. The Commission shall inform the otherMember States thereof.
Article 25
Entry into force
DieThis Directive shall enter into force on the day of its publication in
theOfficial Journal of the European Communities .
Article 26
Addressees
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ANNEX I
INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR THE LIST OF COMPETENT
AUTHORITIES
As required under Article 3(8), the Member States shall provide the following
information on all competent authorities within each of its river basin districts
as well as the portion of any international river basin district lying within their
territory.
(i) Name and address of the competent authority — the official name
and address of the authority identified under Article 3(2).
(ii) Geographical coverage of the river basin district — the names of
the main rivers within the river basin district together with a precise
description of the boundaries of the river basin district. This information
should as far as possible be available for introduction into a geographic
information system (GIS) and/or the geographic information system of the
Commission (GISCO).
(iii) Legal status of competent authority — a description of the legal
status of the competent authority and, where relevant, a summary or copy
of its statute, founding treaty or equivalent legal document.
(iv) Responsibilities — a description of the legal and administrative respon-
sibilities of each competent authority and of its role within each river basin
district.
(v) Membership — where the competent authority acts as a coordinating
body for other competent authorities, a list is required of these bodies
together with a summary of the institutional relationships established in
order to ensure coordination.
(vi) International relationships — where a river basin district covers the
territory of more than one Member State or includes the territory of non-
Member States, a summary is required of the institutional relationships
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ANNEX II
1 SURFACE WATERS
1.1.Characterisation of surface water body types
Member States shall identify the location and boundaries of bodies of
surface water and shall carry out an initial characterisation of all such
bodies in accordance with the following methodology. Member States
may group surface water bodies together for the purposes of this initial
characterisation.
(i) The surface water bodies within the river basin district shall be iden-
tified as falling within either one of the following surface water
categories — rivers, lakes, transitional waters or coastal waters —
or as artificial surface water bodies or heavily modified surface
water bodies.
(ii) For each surface water category, the relevant surface water bodies
within the river basin district shall be differentiated according to
type. These types are those defined using either ‘system A’ or
‘system B’ identified in section 1.2.
(iii) If system A is used, the surface water bodies within the river basin
district shall first be differentiated by the relevant ecoregions in
accordance with the geographical areas identified in section 1.2 and
shown on the relevant map in Annex XI. The water bodies within
each ecoregion shall then be differentiated by surface water body
types according to the descriptors set out in the tables for system A.
(iv) If system B is used, Member States must achieve at least the same
degree of differentiation as would be achieved using system A.
Accordingly, the surface water bodies within the river basin district
shall be differentiated into types using the values for the obligatory
descriptors and such optional descriptors, or combinations of
descriptors, as are required to ensure that type specific biological
reference conditions can be reliably derived.
(v) For artificial and heavily modified surface water bodies the differen-
tiation shall be undertaken in accordance with the descriptors for
whichever of the surface water categories most closely resembles
the heavily modified or artificial water body concerned.
(vi) Member States shall submit to the Commission a map or maps (in a
GIS format) of the geographical location of the types consistent with
the degree of differentiation required under system A.
1.2.Ecoregions and surface water body types
1.2.1. Rivers
System A
Fixed typology Descriptors
Ecoregion Ecoregions shown on map A in Annex XI
Type Altitude typology
high: > 800 m
mid-altitude: 200 to 800 m
lowland: < 200 m
Size typology based on catchment area
small: 10 to 100 km2
medium: > 100 to 1 000 km2
large: > 1000 to 10000 km2
very large: > 10000 km2
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System B
Alternative characterisa-
tionPhysical and chemical factors that determine the
characteristics of the river or part of the river and
hence the biological population structure and
composition
Obligatory factors altitude
latitude
longitude
geologysize
Optional factors distance from river source
energy of flow (function of flow and slope)
mean water widthmean water depthmean water slope
form and shape of main river bed
river discharge (flow) categoryvalley shape
transport of solids
acid neutralising capacitymean substratum compositionchloride
air temperature range
mean air temperatureprecipitation
1.2.2. Lakes
System A
Fixed typology Descriptors
Ecoregion Ecoregions shown on map A in Annex XI
Type Altitude typology
high: > 800 m
mid-altitude: 200 to 800 mlowland: < 200 m
Depth typology based on mean depth
<3m
3t o1 5m
>1 5m
Size typology based on surface area
0,5 to 1 km
2
1t o1 0k m2
10 to 100 km2
> 100 km2
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System B
Alternative characterisa-
tionPhysical and chemical factors that determine the
characteristics of the lake and hence the biological
population structure and composition
Obligatory factors altitude
latitudelongitude
depth
geologysize
Optional factors mean water depth
lake shape
residence timemean air temperature
air temperature range
mixing characteristics (e.g. monomictic,
dimictic, polymictic)
acid neutralising capacity
background nutrient statusmean substratum compositionwater level fluctuation
1.2.3. Transitional Waters
System A
Fixed typology Descriptors
Ecoregion The following as identified on map B in
Annex XI:
Baltic Sea
Barents Sea
Norwegian Sea
North SeaNorth Atlantic OceanMediterranean Sea
Type Based on mean annual salinity
< 0,5 ‰: freshwater
0,5 to < 5 ‰: oligohaline
5 to < 18 ‰: mesohaline18 to < 30 ‰: polyhaline30 to < 40 ‰: euhaline
Based on mean tidal range
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System B
Alternative characterisa-
tionPhysical and chemical factors that determine the
characteristics of the transitional water and hence
the biological population structure and composition
Obligatory factors latitude
longitudetidal range
salinity
Optional factors depth
current velocitywave exposure
residence time
mean water temperaturemixing characteristics
turbidity
mean substratum compositionshapewater temperature range
1.2.4. Coastal Waters
System A
Fixed typology Descriptors
Ecoregion The following as identified on map B in
Annex XI:
Baltic Sea
Barents Sea
Norwegian Sea
North SeaNorth Atlantic OceanMediterranean Sea
Type Based on mean annual salinity
< 0,5 ‰: freshwater
0,5 to < 5 ‰: oligohaline
5 to < 18 ‰: mesohaline18 to < 30 ‰: polyhaline30 to < 40 ‰: euhaline
Based on mean depth
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System B
Alternative characterisa-
tionPhysical and chemical factors that determine the
characteristics of the coastal water and hence the
biological community structure and composition
Obligatory factors latitude
longitudetidal range
salinity
Optional factors current velocity
wave exposuremean water temperature
mixing characteristics
turbidityretention time (of enclosed bays)
mean substratum composition
water temperature range
1.3.Establishment of type-specific reference conditions for surface water
body types
(i) For each surface water body type characterised in accordance with
section 1.1, type-specific hydromorphological and physicochemical
conditions shall be established representing the values of the hydro-
morphological and physicochemical quality elements specified in
point 1.1 in Annex V for that surface water body type at high ecolo-
gical status as defined in the relevant table in point 1.2 in Annex V.
Type-specific biological reference conditions shall be established,
representing the values of the biological quality elements specified
in point 1.1 in Annex V for that surface water body type at high
ecological status as defined in the relevant table in section 1.2 in
Annex V.
(ii) In applying the procedures set out in this section to heavily modified
or artificial surface water bodies references to high ecological status
shall be construed as references to maximum ecological potential as
defined in table 1.2.5 of Annex V. The values for maximum ecolo-
gical potential for a water body shall be reviewed every six years.
(iii) Type-specific conditions for the purposes of points (i) and (ii) and
type-specific biological reference conditions may be either spatially
based or based on modelling, or may be derived using a combination
of these methods. Where it is not possible to use these methods,
Member States may use expert judgement to establish such condi-
tions. In defining high ecological status in respect of concentrations
of specific synthetic pollutants, the detection limits are those which
can be achieved in accordance with the available techniques at the
time when the type-specific conditions are to be established.
(iv) For spatially based type-specific biological reference conditions,
Member States shall develop a reference network for each surface
water body type. The network shall contain a sufficient number of
sites of high status to provide a sufficient level of confidence about
the values for the reference conditions, given the variability in the
values of the quality elements corresponding to high ecological
status for that surface water body type and the modelling techniques
which are to be applied under paragraph (v).
(v) Type-specific biological reference conditions based on modelling
may be derived using either predictive models or hindcasting
methods. The methods shall use historical, palaeological and other
available data and shall provide a sufficient level of confidence
about the values for the reference conditions to ensure that the
conditions so derived are consistent and valid for each surface water
body type.
(vi) Where it is not possible to establish reliable type-specific reference
conditions for a quality element in a surface water body type due to
high degrees of natural variability in that element, not just as a result
of seasonal variations, then that element may be excluded from the
assessment of ecological status for that surface water type. In such
circumstances Member States shall state the reasons for this exclu-
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1.4.Identification of Pressures
Member States shall collect and maintain information on the type and
magnitude of the significant anthropogenic pressures to which the surface
water bodies in each river basin district are liable to be subject, in parti-
cular the following.
Estimation and identification of significant point source pollution, in
particular by substances listed in Annex VIII, from urban, industrial, agri-
cultural and other installations and activities, based, inter alia, on
information gathered under:
(i) Articles 15 and 17 of Directive 91/271/EEC;
(ii) Articles 9 and 15 of Directive 96/61/EC(1);
and for the purposes of the initial river basin management plan:
(iii) Article 11 of Directive 76/464/EEC; and
(iv) Directives 75/440/EC, 76/160/EEC(2), 78/659/EEC and 79/923/
EEC(3).
Estimation and identification of significant diffuse source pollution, in
particular by substances listed in Annex VIII, from urban, industrial, agri-
cultural and other installations and activities; based, inter alia ,o n
information gathered under:
(i) Articles 3, 5 and 6 of Directive 91/676/EEC(4);
(ii) Articles 7 and 17 of Directive 91/414/EEC;
(iii) Directive 98/8/EC;
and for the purposes of the first river basin management plan:
(iv) Directives 75/440/EEC, 76/160/EEC, 76/464/EEC, 78/659/EEC and
79/923/EEC.
Estimation and identification of significant water abstraction for urban,
industrial, agricultural and other uses, including seasonal variations and
total annual demand, and of loss of water in distribution systems.
Estimation and identification of the impact of significant water flow regu-
lation, including water transfer and diversion, on overall flow
characteristics and water balances.
Identification of significant morphological alterations to water bodies.
Estimation and identification of other significant anthropogenic impacts
on the status of surface waters.
Estimation of land use patterns, including identification of the main
urban, industrial and agricultural areas and, where relevant, fisheries and
forests.
1.5.Assessment of Impact
Member States shall carry out an assessment of the susceptibility of the
surface water status of bodies to the pressures identified above.
Member States shall use the information collected above, and any other
relevant information including existing environmental monitoring data,
to carry out an assessment of the likelihood that surface waters bodies
within the river basin district will fail to meet the environmental quality
objectives set for the bodies under Article 4. Member States may utilise
modelling techniques to assist in such an assessment.
For those bodies identified as being at risk of failing the environmental
quality objectives, further characterisation shall, where relevant, be
carried out to optimise the design of both the monitoring programmes
required under Article 8, and the programmes of measures required under
Article 11.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 34
(1) OJ L 135, 30.5.1991, p. 40. Directive as last amended by Directive 98/15/EC (OJ L 67,
7.3.1998, p. 29).
(2) OJ L 31, 5.2.1976, p. 1. Directive as last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.
(3) OJ L 281, 10.11.1979, p. 47. Directive as amended by Directive 91/692/EEC (OJ L
377, 31.12.1991, p. 48).
(4) OJ L 375, 31.12.1991, p. 1.
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2. GROUNDWATERS
2.1.Initial characterisation
Member States shall carry out an initial characterisation of all ground-
water bodies to assess their uses and the degree to which they are at
risk of failing to meet the objectives for each groundwater body under
Article 4. Member States may group groundwater bodies together for the
purposes of this initial characterisation. This analysis may employ
existing hydrological, geological, pedological, land use, discharge,
abstraction and other data but shall identify:
— the location and boundaries of the groundwater body or bodies,
— the pressures to which the groundwater body or bodies are liable to be
subject including:
— diffuse sources of pollution
— point sources of pollution
— abstraction
— artificial recharge,
— the general character of the overlying strata in the catchment area
from which the groundwater body receives its recharge,
— those groundwater bodies for which there are directly dependent
surface water ecosystems or terrestrial ecosystems.
2.2.Further characterisation
Following this initial characterisation, Member States shall carry out
further characterisation of those groundwater bodies or groups of bodies
which have been identified as being at risk in order to establish a more
precise assessment of the significance of such risk and identification of
any measures to be required under Article 11. Accordingly, this charac-
terisation shall include relevant information on the impact of human
activity and, where relevant, information on:
— geological characteristics of the groundwater body including the
extent and type of geological units,
— hydrogeological characteristics of the groundwater body including
hydraulic conductivity, porosity and confinement,
— characteristics of the superficial deposits and soils in the catchment
from which the groundwater body receives its recharge, including
the thickness, porosity, hydraulic conductivity, and absorptive proper-
ties of the deposits and soils,
— stratification characteristics of the groundwater within the ground-
water body,
— an inventory of associated surface systems, including terrestrial
ecosystems and bodies of surface water, with which the groundwater
body is dynamically linked,
— estimates of the directions and rates of exchange of water between the
groundwater body and associated surface systems,
— sufficient data to calculate the long term annual average rate of
overall recharge,
— characterisation of the chemical composition of the groundwater,
including specification of the contributions from human activity.
Member States may use typologies for groundwater characterisation
when establishing natural background levels for these bodies of
groundwater.
2.3.Review of the impact of human activity on groundwaters
For those bodies of groundwater which cross the boundary between two
or more Member States or are identified following the initial characterisa-
tion undertaken in accordance with paragraph 2.1 as being at risk of
failing to meet the objectives set for each body under Article 4, the
following information shall, where relevant, be collected and maintained
for each groundwater body:
(a) the location of points in the groundwater body used for the abstrac-
tion of water with the exception of:
— points for the abstraction of water providing less than an average
of 10 m3per day, or,
— points for the abstraction of water intended for human consump-
tion providing less than an average of 10 m3per day or serving
less than 50 persons,
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(c) the chemical composition of water abstracted from the groundwater
body,
(d) the location of points in the groundwater body into which water is
directly discharged,
(e) the rates of discharge at such points,(f) the chemical composition of discharges to the groundwater body, and
(g) land use in the catchment or catchments from which the groundwater
body receives its recharge, including pollutant inputs and anthropo-
genic alterations to the recharge characteristics such as rainwater
and run-off diversion through land sealing, artificial recharge,
damming or drainage.
2.4.Review of the impact of changes in groundwater levels
Member States shall also identify those bodies of groundwater for which
lower objectives are to be specified under Article 4 including as a result
of consideration of the effects of the status of the body on:
(i) surface water and associated terrestrial ecosystems
(ii) water regulation, flood protection and land drainage
(iii) human development.
2.5.Review of the impact of pollution on groundwater quality
Member States shall identify those bodies of groundwater for which
lower objectives are to be specified under Article 4(5) where, as a result
of the impact of human activity, as determined in accordance with Article
5(1), the body of groundwater is so polluted that achieving good ground-
water chemical status is infeasible or disproportionately expensive.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 36
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ANNEX III
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
The economic analysis shall contain enough information in sufficient detail
(taking account of the costs associated with collection of the relevant data) in
order to:
(a) make the relevant calculations necessary for taking into account under
Article 9 the principle of recovery of the costs of water services, taking
account of long term forecasts of supply and demand for water in the river
basin district and, where necessary:
— estimates of the volume, prices and costs associated with water services,
and
— estimates of relevant investment including forecasts of such investments;
(b) make judgements about the most cost-effective combination of measures in
respect of water uses to be included in the programme of measures under
Article 11 based on estimates of the potential costs of such measures.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 37
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ANNEX IV
PROTECTED AREAS
1. The register of protected areas required under Article 6 shall include the
following types of protected areas:
(i) areas designated for the abstraction of water intended for human
consumption under Article 7;
(ii) areas designated for the protection of economically significant aquatic
species;
(iii) bodies of water designated as recreational waters, including areas desig-
nated as bathing waters under Directive 76/160/EEC;
(iv) nutrient-sensitive areas, including areas designated as vulnerable zones
under Directive 91/676/EEC and areas designated as sensitive areas
under Directive 91/271/EEC; and
(v) areas designated for the protection of habitats or species where the
maintenance or improvement of the status of water is an important
factor in their protection, including relevant Natura 2000 sites desig-
nated under Directive 92/43/EEC(1) and Directive 79/409/EEC(2).
2. The summary of the register required as part of the river basin management
plan shall include maps indicating the location of each protected area and a
description of the Community, national or local legislation under which they
have been designated.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 38
(1) OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7. Directive as last amended by Directive 97/62/EC (OJ L 305,
8.11.1997, p. 42).
(2) OJ L 103, 25.4.1979, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 97/49/EC (OJ L 223,
13.8.1997, p. 9).
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ANNEX V
1. SURFACE WATER STATUS
1.1. Quality elements for the classification of ecological status
1.1.1. Rivers
1.1.2. Lakes
1.1.3. Transitional waters1.1.4. Coastal waters
1.1.5. Artificial and heavily modified surface water bodies
1.2. Normative definitions of ecological status classifications
1.2.1. Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological
status in rivers
1.2.2. Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological
status in lakes
1.2.3. Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological
status in transitional waters
1.2.4. Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological
status in coastal waters
1.2.5. Definitions for maximum, good and moderate ecological
potential for heavily modified or artificial water bodies
1.2.6. Procedure for the setting of chemical quality standards
by Member States
1.3. Monitoring of ecological status and chemical status for surface
waters
1.3.1. Design of surveillance monitoring
1.3.2. Design of operational monitoring1.3.3. Design of investigative monitoring
1.3.4. Frequency of monitoring
1.3.5. Additional monitoring requirements for protected areas1.3.6. Standards for monitoring of quality elements
1.4. Classification and presentation of ecological status
1.4.1. Comparability of biological monitoring results
1.4.2. Presentation of monitoring results and classification of
ecological status and ecological potential
1.4.3. Presentation of monitoring results and classification of
chemical status
2. GROUNDWATER
2.1. Groundwater quantitative status
2.1.1. Parameter for the classification of quantitative status
2.1.2. Definition of quantitative status
2.2. Monitoring of groundwater quantitative status
2.2.1. Groundwater level monitoring network
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2.2.4. Interpretation and presentation of groundwater quanti-
tative status
2.3. Groundwater chemical status
2.3.1. Parameters for the determination of groundwater
chemical status
2.3.2. Definition of good groundwater chemical status
2.4. Monitoring of groundwater chemical status
2.4.1. Groundwater monitoring network
2.4.2. Surveillance monitoring
2.4.3. Operational monitoring2.4.4. Identification of trends in pollutants
2.4.5. Interpretation and presentation of groundwater chemical
status
2.5. Presentation of groundwater status
1. SURFACE WATER STATUS
1.1.Quality elements for the classification of ecological status
1.1.1. Rivers
Biological elements
Composition and abundance of aquatic flora
Composition and abundance of benthic invertebrate faunaComposition, abundance and age structure of fish fauna
Hydromorphological elements supporting the biological elements
Hydrological regime
quantity and dynamics of water flow
connection to groundwater bodies
River continuityMorphological conditions
river depth and width variation
structure and substrate of the river bedstructure of the riparian zone
Chemical and physico-chemical elements supporting the biological
elements
General
Thermal conditions
Oxygenation conditionsSalinityAcidification statusNutrient conditions
Specific pollutants
Pollution by all priority substances identified as being discharged
into the body of water
Pollution by other substances identified as being discharged in
significant quantities into the body of water
1.1.2. Lakes
Biological elements
Composition, abundance and biomass of phytoplankton2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 40
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Composition and abundance of other aquatic flora
Composition and abundance of benthic invertebrate fauna
Composition, abundance and age structure of fish fauna
Hydromorphological elements supporting the biological elements
Hydrological regime
quantity and dynamics of water flow
residence timeconnection to the groundwater body
Morphological conditions
lake depth variation
quantity, structure and substrate of the lake bedstructure of the lake shore
Chemical and physico-chemical elements supporting the biological
elements
General
Transparency
Thermal conditions
Oxygenation conditionsSalinity
Acidification status
Nutrient conditions
Specific pollutants
Pollution by all priority substances identified as being discharged
into the body of water
Pollution by other substances identified as being discharged in
significant quantities into the body of water
1.1.3. Transitional waters
Biological elements
Composition, abundance and biomass of phytoplankton
Composition and abundance of other aquatic flora
Composition and abundance of benthic invertebrate faunaComposition and abundance of fish fauna
Hydro-morphological elements supporting the biological elements
Morphological conditions
depth variation
quantity, structure and substrate of the bed
structure of the intertidal zone
Tidal regime
freshwater flow
wave exposure
Chemical and physico-chemical elements supporting the biological
elements
General
Transparency
Thermal conditions
Oxygenation conditionsSalinity
Nutrient conditions
Specific pollutants
Pollution by all priority substances identified as being discharged
into the body of water2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 41
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Pollution by other substances identified as being discharged in
significant quantities into the body of water
1.1.4. Coastal waters
Biological elements
Composition, abundance and biomass of phytoplankton
Composition and abundance of other aquatic flora
Composition and abundance of benthic invertebrate fauna
Hydromorphological elements supporting the biological elements
Morphological conditions
depth variation
structure and substrate of the coastal bedstructure of the intertidal zone
Tidal regime
direction of dominant currents
wave exposure
Chemical and physico-chemical elements supporting the biological
elements
General
Transparency
Thermal conditions
Oxygenation conditions
SalinityNutrient conditions
Specific pollutants
Pollution by all priority substances identified as being discharged
into the body of water
Pollution by other substances identified as being discharged in
significant quantities into the body of water
1.1.5. Artificial and heavily modified surface water bodies
The quality elements applicable to artificial and heavily modified
surface water bodies shall be those applicable to whichever of the
four natural surface water categories above most closely resembles
the heavily modified or artificial water body concerned.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 42
1.2.Normative definitions of ecological status classifications
Table 1.2.General definition for rivers, lakes, transitional waters and coastal waters
The following text provides a general definition of ecological quality. For the purposes of classification the values for the quality elements of eco logical status for each surface water category are those
given in tables 1.2.1 to 1.2.4 below.
Element High status Good status Moderate status
General There are no, or only very minor, anthropogenic
alterations to the values of the physico-chemical and
hydromorphological quality elements for the surface
water body type from those normally associated with
that type under undisturbed conditions.
The values of the biological quality elements for the
surface water body reflect those normally associated
with that type under undisturbed conditions, and
show no, or only very minor, evidence of distortion.
These are the type-specific conditions and commu-
nities.The values of the biological quality elements for the
surface water body type show low levels of distortion
resulting from human activity, but deviate only
slightly from those normally associated with the
surface water body type under undisturbed conditions.The values of the biological quality elements for the
surface water body type deviate moderately from those
normally associated with the surface water body type
under undisturbed conditions. The values show
moderate signs of distortion resulting from human
activity and are significantly more disturbed than under
conditions of good status.
Waters achieving a status below moderate shall be classified as poor or bad.
Waters showing evidence of major alterations to the values of the biological quality elements for the surface water body type and in which the relevant biological communities deviate substantially from
those normally associated with the surface water body type under undisturbed conditions, shall be classified as poor.
Waters showing evidence of severe alterations to the values of the biological quality elements for the surface water body type and in which large porti ons of the relevant biological communities normally
associated with the surface water body type under undisturbed conditions are absent, shall be classified as bad.▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 43
1.2.1. Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in rivers
Biological quality elements
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Phytoplankton The taxonomic composition of phytoplankton corre-
sponds totally or nearly totally to undisturbed
conditions.
The average phytoplankton abundance is wholly
consistent with the type-specific physico-chemical
conditions and is not such as to significantly alter the
type-specific transparency conditions.
Planktonic blooms occur at a frequency and intensity
which is consistent with the type-specific physico-
chemical conditions.There are slight changes in the composition and abun-
dance of planktonic taxa compared to the type-
specific communities. Such changes do not indicate
any accelerated growth of algae resulting in undesir-
able disturbances to the balance of organisms present
in the water body or to the physico-chemical quality
of the water or sediment.
A slight increase in the frequency and intensity of the
type-specific planktonic blooms may occur.The composition of planktonic taxa differs moderately
from the type-specific communities.
Abundance is moderately disturbed and may be such as
to produce a significant undesirable disturbance in the
values of other biological and physico-chemical quality
elements.
A moderate increase in the frequency and intensity of
planktonic blooms may occur. Persistent blooms may
occur during summer months.
Macrophytes and phyto-
benthosThe taxonomic composition corresponds totally or
nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.
There are no detectable changes in the average
macrophytic and the average phytobenthic abundance.There are slight changes in the composition and abun-
dance of macrophytic and phytobenthic taxa
compared to the type-specific communities. Such
changes do not indicate any accelerated growth of
phytobenthos or higher forms of plant life resulting
in undesirable disturbances to the balance of organ-
isms present in the water body or to the physico-
chemical quality of the water or sediment.
The phytobenthic community is not adversely affected
by bacterial tufts and coats present due to anthropo-
genic activity.The composition of macrophytic and phytobenthic taxa
differs moderately from the type-specific community
and is significantly more distorted than at good status.
Moderate changes in the average macrophytic and the
average phytobenthic abundance are evident.
The phytobenthic community may be interfered with
and, in some areas, displaced by bacterial tufts and
coats present as a result of anthropogenic activities.
Benthic invertebrate fauna The taxonomic composition and abundance corre-
spond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed
conditions.
The ratio of disturbance sensitive taxa to insensitive
taxa shows no signs of alteration from undisturbed
levels.
The level of diversity of invertebrate taxa shows no
sign of alteration from undisturbed levels.There are slight changes in the composition and abun-
dance of invertebrate taxa from the type-specific
communities.
The ratio of disturbance-sensitive taxa to insensitive
taxa shows slight alteration from type-specific levels.
The level of diversity of invertebrate taxa shows
slight signs of alteration from type-specific levels.The composition and abundance of invertebrate taxa
differ moderately from the type-specific communities.
Major taxonomic groups of the type-specific community
are absent.
The ratio of disturbance-sensitive taxa to insensitive
taxa, and the level of diversity, are substantially lower
than the type-specific level and significantly lower than
for good status.▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 44
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Fish fauna Species composition and abundance correspond
totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.
All the type-specific disturbance-sensitive species are
present.
The age structures of the fish communities show little
sign of anthropogenic disturbance and are not indica-tive of a failure in the reproduction or development of
any particular species.There are slight changes in species composition and
abundance from the type-specific communities attri-
butable to anthropogenic impacts on physico-
chemical and hydromorphological quality elements.
The age structures of the fish communities show signs
of disturbance attributable to anthropogenic impacts
on physico-chemical or hydromorphological quality
elements, and, in a few instances, are indicative of a
failure in the reproduction or development of a parti-
cular species, to the extent that some age classes may
be missing.The composition and abundance of fish species differ
moderately from the type-specific communities attribu-
table to anthropogenic impacts on physico-chemical or
hydromorphological quality elements.
The age structure of the fish communities shows major
signs of anthropogenic disturbance, to the extent that a
moderate proportion of the type specific species are
absent or of very low abundance.
Hydromorphological quality elements
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Hydrological regime The quantity and dynamics of flow, and the resultant
connection to groundwaters, reflect totally, or nearly
totally, undisturbed conditions.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
River continuity The continuity of the river is not disturbed by anthro-
pogenic activities and allows undisturbed migration of
aquatic organisms and sediment transport.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Morphological conditions Channel patterns, width and depth variations, flow
velocities, substrate conditions and both the structure
and condition of the riparian zones correspond totally
or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 45
Physico-chemical quality elements (1)
Element High status Good status Moderate status
General conditions The values of the physico-chemical elements corre-
spond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed
conditions.
Nutrient concentrations remain within the range
normally associated with undisturbed conditions.
Levels of salinity, pH, oxygen balance, acid neutra-
lising capacity and temperature do not show signs ofanthropogenic disturbance and remain within the
range normally associated with undisturbed condi-
tions.Temperature, oxygen balance, pH, acid neutralising
capacity and salinity do not reach levels outside the
range established so as to ensure the functioning of
the type specific ecosystem and the achievement of
the values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Nutrient concentrations do not exceed the levels
established so as to ensure the functioning of the
ecosystem and the achievement of the values speci-
fied above for the biological quality elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Specific synthetic pollu-
tantsConcentrations close to zero and at least below the
limits of detection of the most advanced analytical
techniques in general use.Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in
accordance with the procedure detailed in section
1.2.6 without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and
Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Specific non-synthetic
pollutantsConcentrations remain within the range normally
associated with undisturbed conditions (backgroundlevels = bgl).Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in
accordance with the procedure detailed in section1.2.6(
2) without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC
and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological qualityelements.
(1) The following abbreviations are used: bgl = background level, EQS = environmental quality standard.
(2) Application of the standards derived under this protocol shall not require reduction of pollutant concentrations below background levels: (EQS > b gl).▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 46
1.2.2. Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in lakes
Biological quality elements
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Phytoplankton The taxonomic composition and abundance of phyto-
plankton correspond totally or nearly totally to
undisturbed conditions.
The average phytoplankton biomass is consistent with
the type-specific physico-chemical conditions and is
not such as to significantly alter the type-specific
transparency conditions.
Planktonic blooms occur at a frequency and intensity
which is consistent with the type specific physico-
chemical conditions.There are slight changes in the composition and abun-
dance of planktonic taxa compared to the type-
specific communities. Such changes do not indicate
any accelerated growth of algae resulting in undesir-
able disturbance to the balance of organisms present
in the water body or to the physico-chemical quality
of the water or sediment.
A slight increase in the frequency and intensity of the
type specific planktonic blooms may occur.The composition and abundance of planktonic taxa
differ moderately from the type-specific communities.
Biomass is moderately disturbed and may be such as to
produce a significant undesirable disturbance in the
condition of other biological quality elements and the
physico-chemical quality of the water or sediment.
A moderate increase in the frequency and intensity of
planktonic blooms may occur. Persistent blooms may
occur during summer months.
Macrophytes and phyto-
benthosThe taxonomic composition corresponds totally or
nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.
There are no detectable changes in the average
macrophytic and the average phytobenthic abundance.There are slight changes in the composition and abun-
dance of macrophytic and phytobenthic taxa
compared to the type-specific communities. Such
changes do not indicate any accelerated growth of
phytobenthos or higher forms of plant life resulting
in undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms
present in the water body or to the physico-chemical
quality of the water.
The phytobenthic community is not adversely affected
by bacterial tufts and coats present due to anthropo-
genic activity.The composition of macrophytic and phytobenthic taxa
differ moderately from the type-specific communities
and are significantly more distorted than those observed
at good quality.
Moderate changes in the average macrophytic and the
average phytobenthic abundance are evident.
The phytobenthic community may be interfered with,
and, in some areas, displaced by bacterial tufts and
coats present as a result of anthropogenic activities.
Benthic invertebrate fauna The taxonomic composition and abundance corre-
spond totally or nearly totally to the undisturbed
conditions.
The ratio of disturbance sensitive taxa to insensitive
taxa shows no signs of alteration from undisturbed
levels.
The level of diversity of invertebrate taxa shows no
sign of alteration from undisturbed levels.There are slight changes in the composition and abun-
dance of invertebrate taxa compared to the type-
specific communities.
The ratio of disturbance sensitive taxa to insensitive
taxa shows slight signs of alteration from type-
specific levels.
The level of diversity of invertebrate taxa shows
slight signs of alteration from type-specific levels.The composition and abundance of invertebrate taxa
differ moderately from the type-specific conditions.
Major taxonomic groups of the type-specific community
are absent.
The ratio of disturbance sensitive to insensitive taxa,
and the level of diversity, are substantially lower than
the type-specific level and significantly lower than for
good status.▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 47
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Fish fauna Species composition and abundance correspond
totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.
All the type-specific sensitive species are present.
The age structures of the fish communities show little
sign of anthropogenic disturbance and are not indica-
tive of a failure in the reproduction or development ofa particular species.There are slight changes in species composition and
abundance from the type-specific communities attri-
butable to anthropogenic impacts on physico-
chemical or hydromorphological quality elements.
The age structures of the fish communities show signs
of disturbance attributable to anthropogenic impacts
on physico-chemical or hydromorphological quality
elements, and, in a few instances, are indicative of a
failure in the reproduction or development of a parti-
cular species, to the extent that some age classes may
be missing.The composition and abundance of fish species differ
moderately from the type-specific communities attribu-
table to anthropogenic impacts on physico-chemical or
hydromorphological quality elements.
The age structure of the fish communities shows major
signs of disturbance, attributable to anthropogenic
impacts on physico-chemical or hydromorphological
quality elements, to the extent that a moderate propor-
tion of the type specific species are absent or of very
low abundance.
Hydromorphological quality elements
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Hydrological regime The quantity and dynamics of flow, level, residence
time, and the resultant connection to groundwaters,
reflect totally or nearly totally undisturbed conditions.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Morphological conditions Lake depth variation, quantity and structure of the
substrate, and both the structure and condition of the
lake shore zone correspond totally or nearly totally to
undisturbed conditions.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 48
Physico-chemical quality elements (1)
Element High status Good status Moderate status
General conditions The values of physico-chemical elements correspond
totally or nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.
Nutrient concentrations remain within the range
normally associated with undisturbed conditions.
Levels of salinity, pH, oxygen balance, acid neutra-
lising capacity, transparency and temperature do not
show signs of anthropogenic disturbance and remainwithin the range normally associated with undisturbed
conditions.Temperature, oxygen balance, pH, acid neutralising
capacity, transparency and salinity do not reach levels
outside the range established so as to ensure the func-
tioning of the ecosystem and the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Nutrient concentrations do not exceed the levels
established so as to ensure the functioning of the
ecosystem and the achievement of the values speci-
fied above for the biological quality elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Specific synthetic pollu-
tantsConcentrations close to zero and at least below the
limits of detection of the most advanced analytical
techniques in general use.Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in
accordance with the procedure detailed in section
1.2.6 without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and
Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Specific non-synthetic
pollutantsConcentrations remain within the range normally
associated with undisturbed conditions (background
levels = bgl).Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in
accordance with the procedure detailed in section
1.2.6(
2) without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC
and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
(1) The following abbreviations are used: bgl = background level, EQS = environmental quality standard.
(2) Application of the standards derived under this protocol shall not require reduction of pollutant concentrations below background levels: (EQS > b gl).▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 49
1.2.3. Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in transitional waters
Biological quality elements
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Phytoplankton The composition and abundance of the phytoplank-
tonic taxa are consistent with undisturbed conditions.
The average phytoplankton biomass is consistent with
the type-specific physico-chemical conditions and is
not such as to significantly alter the type-specific
transparency conditions.
Planktonic blooms occur at a frequency and intensity
which is consistent with the type specific physico-
chemical conditions.There are slight changes in the composition and abun-
dance of phytoplanktonic taxa.
There are slight changes in biomass compared to the
type-specific conditions. Such changes do not indicate
any accelerated growth of algae resulting in undesir-
able disturbance to the balance of organisms present
in the water body or to the physico-chemical quality
of the water.
A slight increase in the frequency and intensity of the
type specific planktonic blooms may occur.The composition and abundance of phytoplanktonic
taxa differ moderately from type-specific conditions.
Biomass is moderately disturbed and may be such as to
produce a significant undesirable disturbance in the
condition of other biological quality elements.
A moderate increase in the frequency and intensity of
planktonic blooms may occur. Persistent blooms may
occur during summer months.
Macroalgae The composition of macroalgal taxa is consistent with
undisturbed conditions.
There are no detectable changes in macroalgal cover
due to anthropogenic activities.There are slight changes in the composition and abun-
dance of macroalgal taxa compared to the type-
specific communities. Such changes do not indicate
any accelerated growth of phytobenthos or higher
forms of plant life resulting in undesirable disturbance
to the balance of organisms present in the water body
or to the physico-chemical quality of the water.The composition of macroalgal taxa differs moderately
from type-specific conditions and is significantly more
distorted than at good quality.
Moderate changes in the average macroalgal abundance
are evident and may be such as to result in an undesir-
able disturbance to the balance of organisms present in
the water body.
Angiosperms The taxonomic composition corresponds totally or
nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.
There are no detectable changes in angiosperm abun-
dance due to anthropogenic activities.There are slight changes in the composition of angios-
perm taxa compared to the type-specific communities.
Angiosperm abundance shows slight signs of distur-
bance.The composition of the angiosperm taxa differs moder-
ately from the type-specific communities and is
significantly more distorted than at good quality.
There are moderate distortions in the abundance of
angiosperm taxa.
Benthic invertebrate fauna The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate
taxa is within the range normally associated with
undisturbed conditions.
All the disturbance-sensitive taxa associated with
undisturbed conditions are present.The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate
taxa is slightly outside the range associated with the
type-specific conditions.
Most of the sensitive taxa of the type-specific
communities are present.The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate
taxa is moderately outside the range associated with
the type-specific conditions.
Taxa indicative of pollution are present.Many of the sensitive taxa of the type-specific commu-
nities are absent.▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 50
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Fish fauna Species composition and abundance is consistent with
undisturbed conditions.The abundance of the disturbance-sensitive species
shows slight signs of distortion from type-specific
conditions attributable to anthropogenic impacts on
physico-chemical or hydromorphological quality
elements.A moderate proportion of the type-specific disturbance-
sensitive species are absent as a result of anthropogenic
impacts on physicochemical or hydromorphological
quality elements.
Hydromorphological quality elements
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Tidal regime The freshwater flow regime corresponds totally or
nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Morphological conditions Depth variations, substrate conditions, and both the
structure and condition of the intertidal zones corre-
spond totally or nearly totally to undisturbed
conditions.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Physico-chemical quality elements (1)
Element High status Good status Moderate status
General conditions Physico-chemical elements correspond totally or
nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.
Nutrient concentrations remain within the range
normally associated with undisturbed conditions.
Temperature, oxygen balance and transparency do not
show signs of anthropogenic disturbance and remain
within the range normally associated with undisturbed
conditions.Temperature, oxygenation conditions and transpar-
ency do not reach levels outside the ranges
established so as to ensure the functioning of the
ecosystem and the achievement of the values speci-
fied above for the biological quality elements.
Nutrient concentrations do not exceed the levels
established so as to ensure the functioning of the
ecosystem and the achievement of the values speci-
fied above for the biological quality elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Specific synthetic pollu-
tantsConcentrations close to zero and at least below the
limits of detection of the most advanced analytical
techniques in general use.Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in
accordance with the procedure detailed in section
1.2.6 without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and
Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 51
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Specific non-synthetic
pollutantsConcentrations remain within the range normally
associated with undisturbed conditions (background
levels = bgl).Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in
accordance with the procedure detailed in section
1.2.6(2) without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC
and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
(1) The following abbreviations are used: bgl = background level, EQS = environmental quality standard.
(2) Application of the standards derived under this protocol shall not require reduction of pollutant concentrations below background levels: (EQS > b gl).
1.2.4. Definitions for high, good and moderate ecological status in coastal waters
Biological quality elements
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Phytoplankton The composition and abundance of phytoplanktonic
taxa are consistent with undisturbed conditions.
The average phytoplankton biomass is consistent with
the type-specific physico-chemical conditions and is
not such as to significantly alter the type-specific
transparency conditions.
Planktonic blooms occur at a frequency and intensity
which is consistent with the type specific physico-
chemical conditions.The composition and abundance of phytoplanktonic
taxa show slight signs of disturbance.
There are slight changes in biomass compared to
type-specific conditions. Such changes do not indicate
any accelerated growth of algae resulting in undesir-
able disturbance to the balance of organisms present
in the water body or to the quality of the water.
A slight increase in the frequency and intensity of the
type-specific planktonic blooms may occur.The composition and abundance of planktonic taxa
show signs of moderate disturbance.
Algal biomass is substantially outside the range asso-
ciated with type-specific conditions, and is such as to
impact upon other biological quality elements.
A moderate increase in the frequency and intensity of
planktonic blooms may occur. Persistent blooms may
occur during summer months.
Macroalgae and angios-
permsAll disturbance-sensitive macroalgal and angiosperm
taxa associated with undisturbed conditions are
present.
The levels of macroalgal cover and angiosperm abun-
dance are consistent with undisturbed conditions.Most disturbance-sensitive macroalgal and angios-
perm taxa associated with undisturbed conditions are
present.
The level of macroalgal cover and angiosperm abun-
dance show slight signs of disturbance.A moderate number of the disturbance-sensitive macro-
algal and angiosperm taxa associated with undisturbed
conditions are absent.
Macroalgal cover and angiosperm abundance is moder-
ately disturbed and may be such as to result in an
undesirable disturbance to the balance of organisms
present in the water body.
Benthic invertebrate fauna The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate
taxa is within the range normally associated with
undisturbed conditions.
All the disturbance-sensitive taxa associated with
undisturbed conditions are present.The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate
taxa is slightly outside the range associated with the
type-specific conditions.
Most of the sensitive taxa of the type-specific
communities are present.The level of diversity and abundance of invertebrate
taxa is moderately outside the range associated with
the type-specific conditions.
Taxa indicative of pollution are present.Many of the sensitive taxa of the type-specific commu-
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Hydromorphological quality elements
Element High status Good status Moderate status
Tidal regime The freshwater flow regime and the direction and
speed of dominant currents correspond totally or
nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Morphological conditions The depth variation, structure and substrate of the
coastal bed, and both the structure and condition of
the inter-tidal zones correspond totally or nearly
totally to the undisturbed conditions.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Physico-chemical quality elements (1)
Element High status Good status Moderate status
General conditions The physico-chemical elements correspond totally or
nearly totally to undisturbed conditions.
Nutrient concentrations remain within the range
normally associated with undisturbed conditions.
Temperature, oxygen balance and transparency do not
show signs of anthropogenic disturbance and remain
within the ranges normally associated with undis-
turbed conditions.Temperature, oxygenation conditions and transpar-
ency do not reach levels outside the ranges
established so as to ensure the functioning of the
ecosystem and the achievement of the values speci-
fied above for the biological quality elements.
Nutrient concentrations do not exceed the levels
established so as to ensure the functioning of the
ecosystem and the achievement of the values speci-
fied above for the biological quality elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Specific synthetic pollu-
tantsConcentrations close to zero and at least below the
limits of detection of the most advanced analytical
techniques in general use.Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in
accordance with the procedure detailed in section
1.2.6 without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and
Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Specific non-synthetic
pollutantsConcentrations remain within the range normally
associated with undisturbed conditions (background
levels = bgl).Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in
accordance with the procedure detailed in section
1.2.6(2) without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC
and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
(1) The following abbreviations are used: bgl = background level, EQS = environmental quality standard.
(2) Application of the standards derived under this protocol shall not require reduction of pollutant concentrations below background levels: (EQS > b gl).▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 53
1.2.5. Definitions for maximum, good and moderate ecological potential for heavily modified or artificial water bodies
Element Maximum ecological potential Good ecological potential Moderate ecological potential
Biological quality
elementsThe values of the relevant biological quality elements
reflect, as far as possible, those associated with the
closest comparable surface water body type, given
the physical conditions which result from the artificial
or heavily modified characteristics of the water body.There are slight changes in the values of the relevant
biological quality elements as compared to the values
found at maximum ecological potential.There are moderate changes in the values of the rele-
vant biological quality elements as compared to the
values found at maximum ecological potential.
These values are significantly more distorted than those
found under good quality.
Hydromorphological
elementsThe hydromorphological conditions are consistent
with the only impacts on the surface water body being
those resulting from the artificial or heavily modified
characteristics of the water body once all mitigation
measures have been taken to ensure the best approxi-
mation to ecological continuum, in particular with
respect to migration of fauna and appropriate
spawning and breeding grounds.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Physico-chemical elements
General conditions Physico-chemical elements correspond totally or
nearly totally to the undisturbed conditions associated
with the surface water body type most closely
comparable to the artificial or heavily modified body
concerned.
Nutrient concentrations remain within the range
normally associated with such undisturbed conditions.
The levels of temperature, oxygen balance and pH are
consistent with the those found in the most closely
comparable surface water body types under undis-
turbed conditions.The values for physico-chemical elements are within
the ranges established so as to ensure the functioning
of the ecosystem and the achievement of the values
specified above for the biological quality elements.
Temperature and pH do not reach levels outside the
ranges established so as to ensure the functioning of
the ecosystem and the achievement of the values
specified above for the biological quality elements.
Nutrient concentrations do not exceed the levels
established so as to ensure the functioning of the
ecosystem and the achievement of the values speci-
fied above for the biological quality elements.Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
Specific synthetic pollu-
tantsConcentrations close to zero and at least below the
limits of detection of the most advanced analytical
techniques in general use.Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in
accordance with the procedure detailed in section
1.2.6 without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC and
Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.▼B2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 54
Element Maximum ecological potential Good ecological potential Moderate ecological potential
Specific non-synthetic
pollutantsConcentrations remain within the range normally
associated with the undisturbed conditions found in
the surface water body type most closely comparable
to the artificial or heavily modified body concerned
(background levels = bgl).Concentrations not in excess of the standards set in
accordance with the procedure detailed in section
1.2.6(1) without prejudice to Directive 91/414/EC
and Directive 98/8/EC. (< EQS)Conditions consistent with the achievement of the
values specified above for the biological quality
elements.
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1.2.6. Procedure for the setting of chemical quality standards by
Member States
In deriving environmental quality standards for pollutants listed in
points 1 to 9 of Annex VIII for the protection of aquatic biota,
Member States shall act in accordance with the following provisions.
Standards may be set for water, sediment or biota.
Where possible, both acute and chronic data shall be obtained for the
taxa set out below which are relevant for the water body type
concerned as well as any other aquatic taxa for which data are avail-
able. The ‘base set’ of taxa are:
— algae and/or macrophytes
— daphnia or representative organisms for saline waters
— fish.
Setting the environmental quality standardThe following procedure applies to the setting of a maximum annual
average concentration:
(i) Member States shall set appropriate safety factors in each case
consistent with the nature and quality of the available data and
the guidance given in section 3.3.1 of Part II of ‘Technical
guidance document in support of Commission Directive 93/67/
EEC on risk assessment for new notified substances and
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 on risk assessment
for existing substances’ and the safety factors set out in the table
below:
Safety factor
At least one acute L(E)C50from each of
three trophic levels of the base set 1 000
One chronic NOEC (either fish or daphnia
or a representative organism for saline
waters) 100
Two chronic NOECs from species repre-
senting two trophic levels (fish and/or
daphnia or a representative organism for
saline waters and/or algae) 50
Chronic NOECs from at least three species
(normally fish, daphnia or a representative
organism for saline waters and algae) repre-
senting three trophic levels 10
Other cases, including field data or model
ecosystems, which allow more precise
safety factors to be calculated and appliedCase-by-case
assessment
(ii) where data on persistence and bioaccumulation are available,
these shall be taken into account in deriving the final value of
the environmental quality standard;
(iii) the standard thus derived should be compared with any evidence
from field studies. Where anomalies appear, the derivation shall
be reviewed to allow a more precise safety factor to be calcu-
lated;
(iv) the standard derived shall be subject to peer review and public
consultation including to allow a more precise safety factor to
be calculated.
1.3.Monitoring of ecological status and chemical status for surface
waters
The surface water monitoring network shall be established in accor-
dance with the requirements of Article 8. The monitoring network
shall be designed so as to provide a coherent and comprehensive
overview of ecological and chemical status within each river basin
and shall permit classification of water bodies into five classes
consistent with the normative definitions in section 1.2. Member
States shall provide a map or maps showing the surface water moni-
toring network in the river basin management plan.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 56
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On the basis of the characterisation and impact assessment carried
out in accordance with Article 5 and Annex II, Member States shall
for each period to which a river basin management plan applies,
establish a surveillance monitoring programme and an operational
monitoring programme. Member States may also need in some cases
to establish programmes of investigative monitoring.
Member States shall monitor parameters which are indicative of the
status of each relevant quality element. In selecting parameters for
biological quality elements Member States shall identify the appro-
priate taxonomic level required to achieve adequate confidence and
precision in the classification of the quality elements. Estimates of
the level of confidence and precision of the results provided by the
monitoring programmes shall be given in the plan.
1.3.1. Design of surveillance monitoring
Objective
Member States shall establish surveillance monitoring programmes to
provide information for:
— supplementing and validating the impact assessment procedure
detailed in Annex II,
— the efficient and effective design of future monitoring
programmes,
— the assessment of long-term changes in natural conditions, and— the assessment of long-term changes resulting from widespread
anthropogenic activity.
The results of such monitoring shall be reviewed and used, in combi-
nation with the impact assessment procedure described in Annex II,
to determine requirements for monitoring programmes in the current
and subsequent river basin management plans.
Selection of monitoring pointsSurveillance monitoring shall be carried out of sufficient surface
water bodies to provide an assessment of the overall surface water
status within each catchment or subcatchments within the river basin
district. In selecting these bodies Member States shall ensure that,
where appropriate, monitoring is carried out at points where:
— the rate of water flow is significant within the river basin district
as a whole; including points on large rivers where the catchment
area is greater than 2 500 km
2,
— the volume of water present is significant within the river basin
district, including large lakes and reservoirs,
— significant bodies of water cross a Member State boundary,— sites are identified under the Information Exchange Decision 77/
795/EEC, and
at such other sites as are required to estimate the pollutant load
which is transferred across Member State boundaries, and which
is transferred into the marine environment.
Selection of quality elements
Surveillance monitoring shall be carried out for each monitoring site
for a period of one year during the period covered by a river basin
management plan for:
— parameters indicative of all biological quality elements,
— parameters indicative of all hydromorphological quality elements,— parameters indicative of all general physico-chemical quality
elements,
— priority list pollutants which are discharged into the river basin or
sub-basin, and
— other pollutants discharged in significant quantities in the river
basin or sub-basin,
unless the previous surveillance monitoring exercise showed that
the body concerned reached good status and there is no evidence
from the review of impact of human activity in Annex II that the
impacts on the body have changed. In these cases, surveillance
monitoring shall be carried out once every three river basin
management plans.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 57
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1.3.2. Design of operational monitoring
Operational monitoring shall be undertaken in order to:
— establish the status of those bodies identified as being at risk of
failing to meet their environmental objectives, and
— assess any changes in the status of such bodies resulting from the
programmes of measures.
The programme may be amended during the period of the river basin
management plan in the light of information obtained as part of the
requirements of Annex II or as part of this Annex, in particular to
allow a reduction in frequency where an impact is found not to be
significant or the relevant pressure is removed.
Selection of monitoring sites
Operational monitoring shall be carried out for all those bodies of
water which on the basis of either the impact assessment carried out
in accordance with Annex II or surveillance monitoring are identified
as being at risk of failing to meet their environmental objectives
under Article 4 and for those bodies of water into which priority list
substances are discharged. Monitoring points shall be selected for
priority list substances as specified in the legislation laying down
the relevant environmental quality standard. In all other cases,
including for priority list substances where no specific guidance is
given in such legislation, monitoring points shall be selected as
follows:
— for bodies at risk from significant point source pressures, suffi-
cient monitoring points within each body in order to assess the
magnitude and impact of the point source. Where a body is
subject to a number of point source pressures monitoring points
may be selected to assess the magnitude and impact of these
pressures as a whole,
— for bodies at risk from significant diffuse source pressures, suffi-
cient monitoring points within a selection of the bodies in order
to assess the magnitude and impact of the diffuse source pres-
sures. The selection of bodies shall be made such that they are
representative of the relative risks of the occurrence of the diffuse
source pressures, and of the relative risks of the failure to achieve
good surface water status,
— for bodies at risk from significant hydromorphological pressure,
sufficient monitoring points within a selection of the bodies in
order to assess the magnitude and impact of the hydromorpholo-
gical pressures. The selection of bodies shall be indicative of the
overall impact of the hydromorphological pressure to which all
the bodies are subject.
Selection of quality elements
In order to assess the magnitude of the pressure to which bodies of
surface water are subject Member States shall monitor for those
quality elements which are indicative of the pressures to which the
body or bodies are subject. In order to assess the impact of these
pressures, Member States shall monitor as relevant:
— parameters indicative of the biological quality element, or
elements, most sensitive to the pressures to which the water
bodies are subject,
— all priority substances discharged, and other pollutants discharged
in significant quantities,
— parameters indicative of the hydromorphological quality element
most sensitive to the pressure identified.
1.3.3. Design of investigative monitoring
ObjectiveInvestigative monitoring shall be carried out:
— where the reason for any exceedances is unknown,
— where surveillance monitoring indicates that the objectives set out
in Article 4 for a body of water are not likely to be achieved and
operational monitoring has not already been established, in order
to ascertain the causes of a water body or water bodies failing to
achieve the environmental objectives, or
— to ascertain the magnitude and impacts of accidental pollution,2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 58
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and shall inform the establishment of a programme of measures for
the achievement of the environmental objectives and specific
measures necessary to remedy the effects of accidental pollution.
1.3.4. Frequency of monitoring
For the surveillance monitoring period, the frequencies for moni-
toring parameters indicative of physico-chemical quality elements
given below should be applied unless greater intervals would be
justified on the basis of technical knowledge and expert judgement.
For biological or hydromorphological quality elements monitoring
shall be carried out at least once during the surveillance monitoring
period.
For operational monitoring, the frequency of monitoring required for
any parameter shall be determined by Member States so as to
provide sufficient data for a reliable assessment of the status of the
relevant quality element. As a guideline, monitoring should take
place at intervals not exceeding those shown in the table below
unless greater intervals would be justified on the basis of technical
knowledge and expert judgement.
Frequencies shall be chosen so as to achieve an acceptable level of
confidence and precision. Estimates of the confidence and precision
attained by the monitoring system used shall be stated in the river
basin management plan.
Monitoring frequencies shall be selected which take account of the
variability in parameters resulting from both natural and anthropo-
genic conditions. The times at which monitoring is undertaken shall
be selected so as to minimise the impact of seasonal variation on the
results, and thus ensure that the results reflect changesin the water
body as a result of changes due to anthropogenic pressure. Additional
monitoring during different seasons of the same year shall be carried
out, where necessary, to achieve this objective.
Quality element Rivers LakesTransi-
tionalCoastal
Biological
Phytoplankton 6
months6
months6
months6 months
Other aquatic flora 3 years 3 years 3 years 3 years
Macro invertebrates 3 years 3 years 3 years 3 years
Fish 3 years 3 years 3 years
HydromorphologicalContinuity 6 yearsHydrology contin-
uous1
month
Morphology 6 years 6 years 6 years 6 yearsPhysico-chemicalThermal conditions 3
months3
months3
months3 months
Oxygenation 3
months3
months3
months3 months
Salinity 3
months3
months3
months
Nutrient status 3
months3
months3
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Quality element Rivers LakesTransi-
tionalCoastal
Acidification status 3
months3
months
Other pollutants 3
months3
months3
months3 months
Priority substances 1
month1
month1
month1 month
1.3.5. Additional monitoring requirements for protected areas
The monitoring programmes required above shall be supplemented in
order to fulfil the following requirements:
Drinking water abstraction points
Bodies of surface water designated in Article 7 which provide more
than 100 m3a day as an average shall be designated as monitoring
sites and shall be subject to such additional monitoring as may be
necessary to meet the requirements of that Article. Such bodies shall
be monitored for all priority substances discharged and all other
substances discharged in significant quantities which could affect
the status of the body of water and which are controlled under the
provisions of the Drinking Water Directive. Monitoring shall be
carried out in accordance with the frequencies set out below:
Community served Frequency
< 10000 4 per year
10000 to 30000 8 per year> 30000 12 per year.
Habitat and species protection areas
Bodies of water forming these areas shall be included within the
operational monitoring programme referred to above where, on the
basis of the impact assessment and the surveillance monitoring, they
are identified as being at risk of failing to meet their environmental
objectives under Article 4. Monitoring shall be carried out to assess
the magnitude and impact of all relevant significant pressures on
these bodies and, where necessary, to assess changes in the status of
such bodies resulting from the programmes of measures. Monitoring
shall continue until the areas satisfy the water-related requirements of
the legislation under which they are designated and meet their objec-
tives under Article 4.
1.3.6. Standards for monitoring of quality elements
Methods used for the monitoring of type parameters shall conform to
the international standards listed below or such other national or
international standards which will ensure the provision of data of an
equivalent scientific quality and comparability.
Macroinvertebrate sampling
ISO 5667-3:1995 Water quality — Sampling — Part 3:
Guidance on the preservation and handling
of samples
EN 27828:1994 Water quality — Methods for biological
sampling — Guidance on hand net sampling
of benthic macroinvertebrates
EN 28265:1994 Water quality — Methods of biological
sampling — Guidance on the design and
use of quantitative samplers for benthic
macroinvertebrates on stony substrata in
shallow waters2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 60
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EN ISO 9391:1995 Water quality — Sampling in deep waters
for macroinvertebrates — Guidance on the
use of colonisation, qualitative and quantita-tive samplers
EN ISO 8689-1:1999 Biological classification of rivers PART I:
Guidance on the interpretation of biological
quality data from surveys of benthic macro-
invertebrates in running waters
EN ISO 8689-2:1999 Biological classification of rivers PART II:
Guidance on the presentation of biological
quality data from surveys of benthic macro-
invertebrates in running waters
Macrophyte sampling
Relevant CEN / ISO standards when developedFish samplingRelevant CEN / ISO standards when developedDiatom samplingRelevant CEN/ISO standards when developedStandards for physico-chemical parametersAny relevant CEN/ISO standardsStandards for hydromorphological parametersAny relevant CEN/ISO standards
1.4.Classification and presentation of ecological status
1.4.1. Comparability of biological monitoring results
(i) Member States shall establish monitoring systems for the
purpose of estimating the values of the biological quality
elements specified for each surface water category or for
heavily modified and artificial bodies of surface water. In
applying the procedure set out below to heavily modified or
artificial water bodies, references to ecological status should
be construed as references to ecological potential. Such
systems may utilise particular species or groups of species
which are representative of the quality element as a whole.
(ii) In order to ensure comparability of such monitoring systems,
the results of the systems operated by each Member State shall
be expressed as ecological quality ratios for the purposes of
classification of ecological status. These ratios shall represent
the relationship between the values of the biological para-
meters observed for a given body of surface water and the
values for these parameters in the reference conditions applic-
able to that body. The ratio shall be expressed as a numerical
value between zero and one, with high ecological status repre-
sented by values close to one and bad ecological status by
values close to zero.
(iii) Each Member State shall divide the ecological quality ratio
scale for their monitoring system for each surface water cate-
gory into five classes ranging from high to bad ecological
status, as defined in Section 1.2, by assigning a numerical
value to each of the boundaries between the classes. The value
for the boundary between the classes of high and good status,
and the value for the boundary between good and moderate
status shall be established through the intercalibration exercise
described below.
(iv) The Commission shall facilitate this intercalibration exercise in
order to ensure that these class boundaries are established
consistent with the normative definitions in Section 1.2 and
are comparable between Member States.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 61
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(v) As part of this exercise the Commission shall facilitate an
exchange of information between Members States leading to
the identification of a range of sites in each ecoregion in the
Community; these sites will form an intercalibration network.
The network shall consist of sites selected from a range of
surface water body types present within each ecoregion. For
each surface water body type selected, the network shall
consist of at least two sites corresponding to the boundary
between the normative definitions of high and good status,
and at least two sites corresponding to the boundary between
the normative definitions of good and moderate status. The
sites shall be selected by expert judgement based on joint
inspections and all other available information.
(vi) Each Member State monitoring system shall be applied to
those sites in the intercalibration network which are both in
the ecoregion and of a surface water body type to which the
system will be applied pursuant to the requirements of this
Directive. The results of this application shall be used to set
the numerical values for the relevant class boundaries in each
Member State monitoring system.
(vii) Within three years of the date of entry into force of the Direc-
tive, the Commission shall prepare a draft register of sites to
form the intercalibration network which may be adapted in
accordance with the procedures laid down in Article 21. The
final register of sites shall be established within four years of
the date of entry into force of the Directive and shall be
published by the Commission.
(viii) The Commission and Member States shall complete the inter-
calibration exercise within 18 months of the date on which the
finalised register is published.
(ix) The results of the intercalibration exercise and the values
established for the Member State monitoring system classifica-
tions shall be published by the Commission within six months
of the completion of the intercalibration exercise.
1.4.2. Presentation of monitoring results and classification of
ecological status and ecological potential
(i) For surface water categories, the ecological status classification
for the body of water shall be represented by the lower of the
values for the biological and physico-chemical monitoring
results for the relevant quality elements classified in accordance
with the first column of the table set out below. Member States
shall provide a map for each river basin district illustrating the
classification of the ecological status foreach body of water,
colour-coded in accordance with the second column of the table
set out below to reflect the ecological status classification of the
body of water:
Ecological status classifica-
tionColour code
High Blue
Good Green
Moderate Yellow
Poor OrangeBad Red
(ii) For heavily modified and artificial water bodies, the ecological
potential classification for the body of water shall be represented
by the lower of the values for the biological and physico-
chemical monitoring results for the relevant quality elementsclassified in accordance with the first column of the table set
out below. Member States shall provide a map for each river
basin district illustrating the classification of the ecological
potential for each body of water, colour-coded, in respect of
artificial water bodies in accordance with the second column of
the table set out below, and in respect of heavily modified water
bodies in accordance with the third column of that table:2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 62
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Ecological potential
classificationColour code
Artificial Water
BodiesHeavily Modified
Good and above Equal green and
light grey stripesEqual green and
dark grey stripes
Moderate Equal yellow and
light grey stripesEqual yellow and
dark grey stripes
Poor Equal orange and
light grey stripesEqual orange and
dark grey stripes
Bad Equal red and
light grey stripesEqual red and dark
grey stripes
(iii) Member States shall also indicate, by a black dot on the map,
those bodies of water where failure to achieve good status or
good ecological potential is due to non-compliance with one or
more environmental quality standards which have been estab-
lished for that body of water in respect of specific synthetic
and non-synthetic pollutants (in accordance with the compliance
regime established by the Member State).
1.4.3. Presentation of monitoring results and classification of
chemical status
Where a body of water achieves compliance with all the environ-
mental quality standards established in Annex IX, Article 16 and
under other relevant Community legislation setting environmental
quality standards it shall be recorded as achieving good chemical
status. If not, the body shall be recorded as failing to achieve good
chemical status.
Member States shall provide a map for each river basin district illus-
trating chemical status for each body of water, colour-coded in
accordance with the second column of the table set out below to
reflect the chemical status classification of the body of water:
Chemical status classifica-
tionColour code
Good Blue
Failing to achieve good Red
2. GROUNDWATER
2.1.Groundwater quantitative status
2.1.1. Parameter for the classification of quantitative status
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2.1.2. Definition of quantitative status
Elements Good status
Groundwater level The level of groundwater in the ground-
water body is such that the available
groundwater resource is not exceeded by
the long-term annual average rate of
abstraction.
Accordingly, the level of groundwater is not
subject to anthropogenic alterations such as
would result in:
— failure to achieve the environmental
objectives specified under Article 4 for
associated surface waters,
— any significant diminution in the status
of such waters,
— any significant damage to terrestrial
ecosystems which depend directly on
the groundwater body,
and alterations to flow direction resulting
from level changes may occur temporarily,
or continuously in a spatially limited area,
but such reversals do not cause saltwater or
other intrusion, and do not indicate a
sustained and clearly identified anthropo-
genically induced trend in flow directionlikely to result in such intrusions.
2.2.Monitoring of groundwater quantitative status
2.2.1. Groundwater level monitoring network
The groundwater monitoring network shall be established in accor-
dance with the requirements of Articles 7 and 8. The monitoring
network shall be designed so as to provide a reliable assessment of
the quantitative status of all groundwater bodies or groups of bodies
including assessment of the available groundwater resource. Member
States shall provide a map or maps showing the groundwater moni-
toring network in the river basin management plan.
2.2.2. Density of monitoring sites
The network shall include sufficient representative monitoring points
to estimate the groundwater level in each groundwater body or group
of bodies taking into account short and long-term variations in
recharge and in particular:
— for groundwater bodies identified as being at risk of failing to
achieve environmental objectives under Article 4, ensure suffi-
cient density of monitoring points to assess the impact of
abstractions and discharges on the groundwater level,
— for groundwater bodies within which groundwater flows across a
Member State boundary, ensure sufficient monitoring points are
provided to estimate the direction and rate of groundwater flow
across the Member State boundary.
2.2.3. Monitoring frequency
The frequency of observations shall be sufficient to allow assessment
of the quantitative status of each groundwater body or group of
bodies taking into account short and long-term variations in recharge.
In particular:
— for groundwater bodies identified as being at risk of failing to
achieve environmental objectives under Article 4, ensure suffi-
cient frequency of measurement to assess the impact of
abstractions and discharges on the groundwater level,
— for groundwater bodies within which groundwater flows across a
Member State boundary, ensure sufficient frequency of measure-
ment to estimate the direction and rate of groundwater flow
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2.2.4. Interpretation and presentation of groundwater quantita-
tive status
The results obtained from the monitoring network for a groundwater
body or group of bodies shall be used to assess the quantitative status
of that body or those bodies. Subject to point 2.5. Member States
shall provide a map of the resulting assessment of groundwater quan-
titative status, colour-coded in accordance with the following regime:
Good: green
Poor: red
2.3.Groundwater chemical status
2.3.1. Parameters for the determination of groundwater
chemical status
Conductivity
Concentrations of pollutants
2.3.2. Definition of good groundwater chemical status
Elements Good status
General The chemical composition of the ground-
water body is such that the concentrations
of pollutants:
— as specified below, do not exhibit the
effects of saline or other intrusions
— do not exceed the quality standards
applicable under other relevant Commu-
nity legislation in accordance withArticle 17
— are not such as would result in failure to
achieve the environmental objectives
specified under Article 4 for associated
surface waters nor any significant
diminution of the ecological or chemical
quality of such bodies nor in any signif-
icant damage to terrestrial ecosystems
which depend directly on the ground-
water body
Conductivity Changes in conductivity are not indicative
of saline or other intrusion into the ground-
water body
2.4.Monitoring of groundwater chemical status
2.4.1. Groundwater monitoring network
The groundwater monitoring network shall be established in accor-
dance with the requirements of Articles 7 and 8. The monitoring
network shall be designed so as to provide a coherent and compre-
hensive overview of groundwater chemical status within each river
basin and to detect the presence of long-term anthropogenically
induced upward trends in pollutants.
On the basis of the characterisation and impact assessment carried
out in accordance with Article 5 and Annex II, Member States shall
for each period to which a river basin management plan applies,
establish a surveillance monitoring programme. The results of this
programme shall be used to establish an operational monitoring
programme to be applied for the remaining period of the plan.
Estimates of the level of confidence and precision of the results
provided by the monitoring programmes shall be given in the plan.
2.4.2. Surveillance monitoring
ObjectiveSurveillance monitoring shall be carried out in order to:
— supplement and validate the impact assessment procedure,2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 65
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— provide information for use in the assessment of long term trends
both as a result of changes in natural conditions and through
anthropogenic activity.
Selection of monitoring sites
Sufficient monitoring sites shall be selected for each of the
following:
— bodies identified as being at risk following the characterisation
exercise undertaken in accordance with Annex II,
— bodies which cross a Member State boundary.
Selection of parametersThe following set of core parameters shall be monitored in all the
selected groundwater bodies:
— oxygen content
— pH value— conductivity— nitrate— ammonium
Bodies which are identified in accordance with Annex II as being at
significant risk of failing to achieve good status shall also be moni-
tored for those parameters which are indicative of the impact of these
pressures.
Transboundary water bodies shall also be monitored for those para-
meters which are relevant for the protection of all of the uses
supported by the groundwater flow.
2.4.3. Operational monitoring
ObjectiveOperational monitoring shall be undertaken in the periods between
surveillance monitoring programmes in order to:
— establish the chemical status of all groundwater bodies or groups
of bodies determined as being at risk,
— establish the presence of any long term anthropogenically induced
upward trend in the concentration of any pollutant.
Selection of monitoring sites
Operational monitoring shall be carried out for all those groundwater
bodies or groups of bodies which on the basis of both the impactassessment carried out in accordance with Annex II and surveillance
monitoring are identified as being at risk of failing to meet objectives
under Article 4. The selection of monitoring sites shall also reflect an
assessment of how representative monitoring data from that site is of
the quality of the relevant groundwater body or bodies.
Frequency of monitoring
Operational monitoring shall be carried out for the periods between
surveillance monitoring programmes at a frequency sufficient to
detect the impacts of relevant pressures but at a minimum of once
per annum.
2.4.4. Identification of trends in pollutants
Member States shall use data from both surveillance and operational
monitoring in the identification of long term anthropogenically
induced upward trends in pollutant concentrations and the reversal
of such trends. The base year or period from which trend identifica-
tion is to be calculated shall be identified. The calculation of trends
shall be undertaken for a body or, where appropriate, group of bodies
of groundwater. Reversal of a trend shall be demonstrated statisti-
cally and the level of confidence associated with the identification
stated.
2.4.5. Interpretation and presentation of groundwater chemical
status
In assessing status, the results of individual monitoring points within
a groundwater body shall be aggregated for the body as a whole.
Without prejudice to the Directives concerned, for good status to be
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which environmental quality standards have been set in Community
legislation:
— the mean value of the results of monitoring at each point in the
groundwater body or group of bodies shall be calculated, and
— in accordance with Article 17 these mean values shall be used to
demonstrate compliance with good groundwater chemical status.
Subject to point 2.5, Member States shall provide a map of ground-
water chemical status, colour-coded as indicated below:
Good: green
Poor: red
Member States shall also indicate by a black dot on the map, those
groundwater bodies which are subject to a significant and sustained
upward trend in the concentrations of any pollutant resulting from
the impact of human activity. Reversal of a trend shall be indicated
by a blue dot on the map.
These maps shall be included in the river basin management plan.
2.5.Presentation of Groundwater Status
Member States shall provide in the river basin management plan a
map showing for each groundwater body or groups of groundwater
bodies both the quantitative status and the chemical status of that
body or group of bodies, colour-coded in accordance with the
requirements of points 2.2.4 and 2.4.5. Member States may choose
not to provide separate maps under points 2.2.4 and 2.4.5 but shall
in that case also provide an indication in accordance with the require-
ments of point 2.4.5 on the map required under this point, of those
bodies which are subject to a significant and sustained upward trend
in the concentration of any pollutant or any reversal in such a trend.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 67
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ANNEX VI
LISTS OFMEASURES TO BE INCLUDED WITHIN THE
PROGRAMMES OFMEASURES
PART A
Measures required under the following Directives:
(i) The Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC);
(ii) The Birds Directive (79/409/EEC)(1);
(iii) The Drinking Water Directive (80/778/EEC) as amended by Directive (98/
83/EC);
(iv) The Major Accidents (Seveso) Directive (96/82/EC)(2);
(v) The Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (85/337/EEC)(3);
(vi) The Sewage Sludge Directive (86/278/EEC)(4);
(vii) The Urban Waste-water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC);(viii) The Plant Protection Products Directive (91/414/EEC);(ix) The Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC);(x) The Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC)(
5);
(xi) The Integrated Pollution Prevention Control Directive (96/61/EC).
PART B
The following is a non-exclusive list of supplementary measures which Member
States within each river basin district may choose to adopt as part of the
programme of measures required under Article 11(4):
(i) legislative instruments
(ii) administrative instruments(iii) economic or fiscal instruments(iv) negotiated environmental agreements(v) emission controls(vi) codes of good practice(vii) recreation and restoration of wetlands areas(viii) abstraction controls(ix) demand management measures, inter alia , promotion of adapted agricul-
tural production such as low water requiring crops in areas affected by
drought
(x) efficiency and reuse measures, inter alia , promotion of water-efficient
technologies in industry and water-saving irrigation techniques
(xi) construction projects(xii) desalination plants(xiii) rehabilitation projects
(xiv) artificial recharge of aquifers
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(1) OJ L 103, 25.4.1979, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 10, 14.1.1997, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40. Directive as amended by Directive 97/11/EC (OJ L 73,
14.3.1997, p. 5).
(4) OJ L 181, 8.7.1986, p. 6.
(5) OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7.
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ANNEX VII
RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT PLANS
A. River basin management plans shall cover the following elements:
1. a general description of the characteristics of the river basin district
required under Article 5 and Annex II. This shall include:
1.1. for surface waters:
— mapping of the location and boundaries of water bodies,
— mapping of the ecoregions and surface water body types within the
river basin,
— identification of reference conditions for the surface water body
types;
1.2. for groundwaters:
— mapping of the location and boundaries of groundwater bodies;
2. a summary of significant pressures and impact of human activity on
the status of surface water and groundwater, including:
— estimation of point source pollution,
— estimation of diffuse source pollution, including a summary of land
use,
— estimation of pressures on the quantitative status of water
including abstractions,
— analysis of other impacts of human activity on the status of water;
3. identification and mapping of protected areas as required by Article 6
and Annex IV;
4. a map of the monitoring networks established for the purposes of
Article 8 and Annex V, and a presentation in map form of the results
of the monitoring programmes carried out under those provisions for
the status of:
4.1. surface water (ecological and chemical);4.2. groundwater (chemical and quantitative);4.3. protected areas;5. a list of the environmental objectives established under Article 4 for
surface waters, groundwaters and protected areas, including in parti-
cular identification of instances where use has been made of Article
4(4), (5), (6) and (7), and the associated information required under
that Article;
6. a summary of the economic analysis of water use as required by
Article 5 and Annex III;
7. a summary of the programme or programmes of measures adopted
under Article 11, including the ways in which the objectives estab-
lished under Article 4 are thereby to be achieved;
7.1. a summary of the measures required to implement Community legisla-
tion for the protection of water;
7.2. a report on the practical steps and measures taken to apply the prin-
ciple of recovery of the costs of water use in accordance with Article
9;
7.3. a summary of the measures taken to meet the requirements of Article
7;
7.4. a summary of the controls on abstraction and impoundment of water,
including reference to the registers and identifications of the cases
where exemptions have been made under Article 11(3)(e);
7.5. a summary of the controls adopted for point source discharges and
other activities with an impact on the status of water in accordance
with the provisions of Article 11(3)(g) and 11(3)(i);
7.6. an identification of the cases where direct discharges to groundwater
have been authorised in accordance with the provisions of Article
11(3)(j);
7.7. a summary of the measures taken in accordance with Article 16 on
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7.8. a summary of the measures taken to prevent or reduce the impact of
accidental pollution incidents;
7.9. a summary of the measures taken under Article 11(5) for bodies of
water which are unlikely to achieve the objectives set out under
Article 4;
7.10. details of the supplementary measures identified as necessary in order
to meet the environmental objectives established;
7.11. details of the measures taken to avoid increase in pollution of marine
waters in accordance with Article 11(6);
8. a register of any more detailed programmes and management plans for
the river basin district dealing with particular sub-basins, sectors,
issues or water types, together with a summary of their contents;
9. a summary of the public information and consultation measures taken,
their results and the changes to the plan made as a consequence;
10. a list of competent authorities in accordance with Annex I;
11. the contact points and procedures for obtaining the background docu-
mentation and information referred to in Article 14(1), and in
particular details of the control measures adopted in accordance with
Article 11(3)(g) and 11(3)(i) and of the actual monitoring data gath-
ered in accordance with Article 8 and Annex V.
B. The first update of the river basin management plan and all subsequent
updates shall also include:
1. a summary of any changes or updates since the publication of the
previous version of the river basin management plan, including a
summary of the reviews to be carried out under Article 4(4), (5), (6) and
(7);
2. an assessment of the progress made towards the achievement of the envir-
onmental objectives, including presentation of the monitoring results for
the period of the previous plan in map form, and an explanation for any
environmental objectives which have not been reached;
3. a summary of, and an explanation for, any measures foreseen in the
earlier version of the river basin management plan which have not been
undertaken;
4. a summary of any additional interim measures adopted under Article
11(5) since the publication of the previous version of the river basin
management plan.2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 70
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ANNEX VIII
INDICATIVE LIST OFTHE MAIN POLLUTANTS
1. Organohalogen compounds and substances which may form such
compounds in the aquatic environment.
2. Organophosphorous compounds.3. Organotin compounds.
4. Substances and preparations, or the breakdown products of such, which
have been proved to possess carcinogenic or mutagenic properties or prop-
erties which may affect steroidogenic, thyroid, reproduction or other
endocrine-related functions in or via the aquatic environment.
5. Persistent hydrocarbons and persistent and bioaccumulable organic toxic
substances.
6. Cyanides.
7. Metals and their compounds.
8. Arsenic and its compounds.9. Biocides and plant protection products.
10. Materials in suspension.
11. Substances which contribute to eutrophication (in particular, nitrates and
phosphates).
12. Substances which have an unfavourable influence on the oxygen balance
(and can be measured using parameters such as BOD, COD, etc.).2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 71
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ANNEX IX
EMISSION LIMIT VALUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STAN-
DARDS
The ‘limit values’ and ‘quality objectives’ established under the re Directives of
Directive 76/464/EEC shall be considered emission limit values and environ-
mental quality standards, respectively, for the purposes of this Directive. They
are established in the following Directives:
(i) The Mercury Discharges Directive (82/176/EEC)(1);
(ii) The Cadmium Discharges Directive (83/513/EEC)(2);
(iii) The Mercury Directive (84/156/EEC)(3);
(iv) The Hexachlorocyclohexane Discharges Directive (84/491/EEC)(4); and
(v) The Dangerous Substance Discharges Directive (86/280/EEC)(5).2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 72
(1) OJ L 81, 27.3.1982, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 291, 24.10.1983, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 74, 17.3.1984, p. 49.
(4) OJ L 274, 17.10.1984, p. 11.
(5) OJ L 181, 4.7.1986, p. 16.
ANNEX X
LIST OFPRIORITY SUBSTANCES IN THE F IELD OFWATER POLICY (*)
CAS number (1) EU number (2) Name of priority substanceIdentified as priority hazardous
substance
(1) 15972-60-8 240-110-8 Alachlor
(2) 120-12-7 204-371-1 Anthracene (X)(***)
(3) 1912-24-9 217-617-8 Atrazine (X)(***)(4) 71-43-2 200-753-7 Benzene(5) not applicable not applicable Brominated diphenylethers (**) X(****)
(6) 7440-43-9 231-152-8 Cadmium and its compounds X
(7) 85535-84-8 287-476-5 C
10-13-chloroalkanes (**) X
(8) 470-90-6 207-432-0 Chlorfenvinphos(9) 2921-88-2 220-864-4 Chlorpyrifos (X)(***)
(10) 107-06-2 203-458-1 1,2-Dichloroethane
(11) 75-09-2 200-838-9 Dichloromethane(12) 117-81-7 204-211-0 Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) (X)(***)(13) 330-54-1 206-354-4 Diuron (X)(***)(14) 115-29-7 204-079-4 Endosulfan (X)(***)
959-98-8 not applicable (alpha-endosulfan)
(15) 206-44-0 205-912-4 Fluoranthene (*****)(16) 118-74-1 204-273-9 Hexachlorobenzene X(17) 87-68-3 201-765-5 Hexachlorobutadiene X▼M12000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 73
CAS number (1) EU number (2) Name of priority substanceIdentified as priority hazardous
substance
(18) 608-73-1 210-158-9 Hexachlorocyclohexane X
58-89-9 200-401-2 (gamma-isomer, Lindane)
(19) 34123-59-6 251-835-4 Isoproturon (X)(***)(20) 7439-92-1 231-100-4 Lead and its compounds (X)(***)(21) 7439-97-6 231-106-7 Mercury and itrs compounds X
(22) 91-20-3 202-049-5 Naphthalene (X)(***)
(23) 7440-02-0 231-111-4 Nickel and its compounds(24) 25154-52-3 246-672-0 Nonylphenols X
104-40-5 203-199-4 (4-(para)-nonylphenol)
(25) 1806-26-4 217-302-5 Octylphenols (X)(***)
140-66-9 not applicable (para-tert-octylphenol)
(26) 608-93-5 210-172-5 Pentachlorobenzene X(27) 87-86-5 201-778-6 Pentachlorophenol (X)(***)(28) not applicable not applicable Polyaromatic hydrocarbons X
50-32-8 200-028-5 (Benzo(a)pyrene),205-99-2 205-911-9 (Benzo(b)fluoranthene),191-24-2 205-883-8 (Benzo(g,h,i)perylene),207-08-9 205-916-6 (Benzo(k)fluoranthene),193-39-5 205-893-2 (Indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene)▼M12000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 74
CAS number (1) EU number (2) Name of priority substanceIdentified as priority hazardous
substance
(29) 122-34-9 204-535-2 Simazine (X)(***)
(30) 688-73-3 211-704-4 Tributyltin compounds X
36643-28-4 not applicable (Tributyltin-cation)
(31) 12002-48-1 234-413-4 Trichlorobenzenes (X)(***)
120-82-1 204-428-0 (1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene)
(32) 67-66-3 200-663-8 Trichloromethane (Chloroform)
(33) 1582-09-8 216-428-8 Trifluralin (X)(***)
(*) Where groups of substances have been selected, typical individual representatives are listed as indicative parameters (in brackets and without number). The establishment of controls will be targeted to these individual
substances, without prejudicing the inclusion of other individual representatives, where appropriate.
(**) These groups of substances normally include a considerable number of individual compounds. At present, appropriate indicative parameters can not be given.
(***) This priority substance is subject to a review for identification as possible ‘priority hazardous substance’. The Commission will make a propo sal to the European Parliament and Council for its final classification not later
than 12 months after adoption of this list. The timetable laid down in Article 16 of Directive 2000/60/EC for the Commission's proposals of controls is not affected by this review.
(****) Only Pentabromobiphenylether (CAS-number 32534-81-9).
(*****) Fluoranthene is on the list as an indicator of other, more dangerous Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons.
(1) CAS: Chemical Abstract Services.
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ANNEX XI
MAP A
System A: Ecoregions for rivers and lakes
1. Iberic-Macaronesian region
2. Pyrenees
3. Italy, Corsica and Malta4. Alps5. Dinaric western Balkan6. Hellenic western Balkan7. Eastern Balkan
8. Western highlands
9. Central highlands
10. The Carpathians11. Hungarian lowlands12. Pontic province13. Western plains
14. Central plains
15. Baltic province16. Eastern plains17. Ireland and Northern Ireland18. Great Britain19. Iceland
20. Borealic uplands
21. Tundra22. Fenno-Scandian shield23. Taiga24. The Caucasus25. Caspic depression2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 76
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MAP B
System A: Ecoregions for transitional waters and coastal waters
1. Atlantic Ocean
2. Norwegian Sea3. Barents Sea
4. North Sea
5. Baltic Sea6. Mediterranean Sea2000L0060 — EN — 16.12.2001 — 001.001 — 77