Directive 2006/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on the quality of fresh waters needing protection or improvement in order to support fish life   (Codified version) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-09-06
Institutions: Council of the European Union, European Parliament
Subjects: codification of EU law, environmental standard, fish, freshwater, quality of the environment, water treatment

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DIRECTIVE 2006/44/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL

of 6 September 2006

on the quality of fresh waters needing protection or improvement in order to support fish life

(codified version)

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EURO-
PEAN UNION,

(5)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu-
nity, and in particular Article 175(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and
Social Committee (1),

Having consulted the Committee of the Regions,

Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251
of the Treaty (2),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Council Directive 78/659/EEC of 18 July 1978 on the
quality of fresh waters needing protection or improve-
ment in order to support fish life (3) has been significantly
amended on several occasions (4). In the interests of clar-
ity and rationality that Directive should be codified.

The protection and improvement of the environment
necessitates concrete measures to protect waters against
pollution, including fresh waters capable of supporting
fish life.

It is necessary from the ecological and economic view-
point to safeguard fish populations from various harmful
consequences resulting from the discharge of pollutant
substances into the waters, such as,
in particular, the
reduction in number of fish belonging to a certain species
and even in some cases the disappearance of a number of
these species.

Decision No 1600/2002/EC of the European Parliament
and of the Council of 22 July 2002 laying down the Sixth
Community Environment Action Programme (5)
is
designed to achieve levels of surface water quality that do
not give rise to significant impacts on, and risks to, the
environment.

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

Discrepancies between the provisions applicable in the
various Member States with regard to the quality of fresh
water capable of supporting fish life may give rise to
unequal conditions of competition and thus have a direct
bearing on the functioning of the internal market.

In order to attain the objectives of this Directive, Member
States should designate the waters to which it will apply
and set limit values corresponding to certain parameters.
The waters so designated should be brought into confor-
mity with these values within five years of this designation.

Provision should be made that fresh waters capable of sup-
porting fish life will, under certain conditions, be deemed
to conform to the relevant parametric values even if a cer-
tain percentage of samples taken does not comply with
the limits specified.

To ensure that the quality of fresh waters capable of sup-
porting fish life is checked, a minimum number of samples
should be taken and the measurements relating to speci-
fied parameters, as annexed hereto, should be carried out.
Such sampling may be reduced or discontinued in the light
of the quality of the water.

Member States are unable to control certain natural cir-
cumstances and it is therefore necessary to provide for the
possibility of derogating from this Directive in certain
cases.

Technical and scientific progress may call for the rapid
adaptation of certain of the requirements laid down in
Annex I. In order to facilitate the introduction of the mea-
sures required for this purpose, a procedure should be laid
down whereby close cooperation would be established
between Member States and the Commission in accor-
dance with
of
28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exer-
conferred on the
cise of
Commission (6).

implementing powers

Council Decision

1999/468/EC

(1) OJ C 117, 30.4.2004, p. 11.
(2) Opinion of the European Parliament of 21 April 2004 (OJ C 104 E,

30.4.2004, p. 545) and Council Decision of 25 April 2006.

(3) OJ L 222, 14.8.1978, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 807/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 36).

(11)

This Directive should be without prejudice to the obliga-
tions of the Member States relating to the time limits for
transposition into national law of the Directives set out in
Part B of Annex III,

(4) See Part A of Annex III.
(5) OJ L 242, 10.9.2002, p. 1.

(6) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

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HAVE ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 4

Article 1

1. Member States shall designate salmonid waters and cyp-
rinid waters and may subsequently make additional designations.

1.
This Directive concerns the quality of fresh waters and shall
apply to those waters designated by the Member States as need-
ing protection or improvement in order to support fish life.

This Directive shall not apply to waters in natural or artifi-

2.
cial fish ponds used for intensive fish-farming.

3.
The aim of this Directive is to protect or improve the qual-
ity of those running or standing fresh waters which support, or
which, if pollution were reduced or eliminated, would become
capable of supporting, fish belonging to:

(a)

indigenous species offering a natural diversity;

2. Member States may revise the designation of certain waters
owing to factors unforeseen at the time of designation, taking
into account the principle set out in Article 8.

Article 5

Member States shall establish programmes in order to reduce
pollution and to ensure that designated waters conform, within
five years following designation in accordance with Article 4, to
both the values set by the Member States in accordance with
Article 3 and the comments contained in columns G and I of
Annex I.

(b)

species the presence of which is judged desirable for water
management purposes by the competent authorities of the
Member States.

Article 6

4.

For the purposes of this Directive:

(a)

salmonid waters shall mean waters which support or become
capable of supporting fish belonging to species such as
salmon (Salmo salar), trout (Salmo trutta), grayling (Thymallus
thymallus) and whitefish (Coregonus);

(b) cyprinid waters shall mean waters which support or become
capable of supporting fish belonging to the cyprinids
(Cyprinidae), or other species such as pike (Esox lucius), perch
(Perca fluviatilis) and eel (Anguilla anguilla).

Article 2

The physical and chemical parameters applicable to the waters
designated by the Member States are listed in Annex I.

For the purposes of applying these parameters, waters are divided
into salmonid waters and cyprinid waters.

Article 3

1. Member States shall, for the designated waters, set values
for the parameters listed in Annex I, in so far as values are listed
in column G or in column I. They shall comply with the com-
ments contained in each of these two columns.

1.
For the purposes of implementing Article 5, the designated
waters shall be deemed to conform to this Directive if samples
of such waters, taken at the minimum frequency specified in
Annex I at the same sampling point and over a period of 12
months, show that they conform to both the values set by the
Member States in accordance with Article 3 and the comments
contained in columns G and I of Annex I, in the case of:

(a) 95 % of the samples for the parameters: pH, BOD5, nitrites,
non-ionised ammonia, total ammonium, total residual chlo-
rine, total zinc and dissolved copper. When the sampling
frequency is lower than one sample per month, both the
abovementioned values and comments shall be respected for
all the samples;

(b)

the percentages listed in Annex I for the parameters: tem-
perature and dissolved oxygen;

(c)

the average concentration set for the parameter: suspended
solids.

2.
Instances in which the values set by Member States in
accordance with Article 3 or the comments contained in col-
umns G and I of Annex I are not respected shall not be taken
into consideration in the calculation of the percentages provided
for in paragraph 1 when they are the result of floods or other
natural disasters.

Article 7

2. Member States shall not set values less stringent than those
listed in column I of Annex I and shall endeavour to respect the
values in column G taking into account the principle set out in
Article 8.

1.
The competent authorities in the Member States shall carry
out sampling operations, the minimum frequency of which is
laid down in Annex I.

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2. Where the competent authority records that the quality of
designated waters is appreciably higher than that which would
result from the application of the values set in accordance with
Article 3 and the comments contained in columns G and I of
Annex I, the frequency of the sampling may be reduced. Where
there is no pollution or no risk of deterioration in the quality of
the waters, the competent authority concerned may decide that
no sampling is necessary.

If sampling shows that a value set by a Member State in
3.
accordance with Article 3 or a comment contained in columns
G or I of Annex I is not respected, the Member State shall estab-
lish whether this is the result of chance, a natural phenomenon
or pollution and shall adopt appropriate measures.

4.
The exact sampling point, the distance from this point to
the nearest point where pollutants are discharged and the depth
at which the samples are to be taken shall be fixed by the com-
petent authority of each Member State on the basis of local envi-
ronmental conditions in particular.

5.
Certain reference methods of analysis for calculating the
value of the parameters concerned are set out in Annex I. Labo-
ratories which employ other methods shall ensure that the results
obtained are equivalent or comparable to those specified in
Annex I.

(b) when designated waters undergo natural enrichment in cer-
tain substances, so that the values set out in Annex I are not
respected.

Natural enrichment means the process whereby, without
human intervention, a given body of water receives from the
soil certain substances contained therein.

Article 12

Such amendments as are necessary for adapting to technical and
scientific progress the G values for the parameters and the meth-
ods of analysis contained in Annex I shall be adopted in accor-
dance with the procedure referred to in Article 13(2).

Article 13

The Commission shall be assisted by a committee on adap-
1.
tation to technical and scientific progress, hereinafter referred to
as ‘the Committee’.

Article 8

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7
of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the pro-
visions of Article 8 thereof.

Implementation of the measures taken pursuant to this Directive
may on no account lead, either directly or indirectly, to increased
pollution of fresh water.

The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC
shall be set at three months.

Article 9

3.

The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.

Member States may at any time set more stringent values for des-
ignated waters than those laid down in this Directive. They may
also lay down provisions relating to parameters other than those
provided for in this Directive.

Article 10

When fresh waters cross or form national frontiers between
Member States and which one of the States concerned is consid-
ering designating, the States concerned shall consult each other
in order to determine the stretches of such waters to which this
Directive might apply and the consequences to be drawn from
the common quality objectives; these consequences shall be
determined, after formal consultations, by each State concerned.
The Commission may participate in these deliberations.

Article 11

Member States may derogate from this Directive:

Article 14

For the purposes of applying this Directive, Member States shall
provide the Commission with information concerning:

(a)

the waters designated in accordance with Article 4(1), in
summary form;

(b)

the revision of the designation of certain waters in accor-
dance with Article 4(2);

(c)

the provisions laid down in order to establish new param-
eters in accordance with Article 9;

(d)

the application of the derogations from the values listed in
column I of Annex I.

(a)

in the case of certain parameters marked (0) in Annex I,
because of exceptional weather or special geographical
conditions;

More generally, Member States shall provide the Commission, on
a reasoned request from the latter, with any information neces-
sary for the application of this Directive.

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Article 15

Article 17

At intervals of three years, and for the first time for the period
1993 to 1995 inclusive, Member States shall send information
to the Commission on the implementation of this Directive, in
the form of a sectoral report which shall also cover other perti-
nent Community Directives. The report shall be drawn up on the
basis of a questionnaire or outline drafted by the Commission in
accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 6 of Coun-
cil Directive 91/692/EEC of 23 December 1991 standardising
and rationalising reports on the implementation of certain Direc-
tives relating to the environment (1). The questionnaire or out-
line shall be sent to the Member States six months before the
start of the period covered by the report. The report shall be sent
to the Commission within nine months of the end of the three-
year period covered by it.

Directive 78/659/EEC is hereby repealed, without prejudice to
the obligations of the Member States relating to the time limits
for transposition into national law of the Directives set out in
Part B of Annex III.

References to the repealed Directive shall be construed as refer-
ences to this Directive and should be read in accordance with
the correlation table in Annex IV.

Article 18

This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following
that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The Commission shall publish a Community report on the imple-
mentation of this Directive within nine months of receiving the
reports from the Member States.

Article 19

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Article 16

Done at Strasbourg, 6 September 2006.

Member States shall communicate to the Commission the texts
of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the
field governed by this Directive.

For the European Parliament
The President
J. BORRELL FONTELLES

For the Council
The President
P. LEHTOMÄKI

(1) OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 48. Directive as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

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L 264/29

ANNEX II

PARTICULARS REGARDING TOTAL ZINC AND DISSOLVED COPPER

Total zinc

(see Annex I, No 13, ‘Observations’ column)

Total zinc concentrations (mg/l Zn) for different water hardness values between 10 and 500 mg/l CaCO3:

Salmonid waters (mg/l Zn)

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(1) The presence of fish in waters containing higher concentrations of copper may indicate a predominance of dissolved organo-cupric

complexes.

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ANNEX III

Part A

Repealed Directive with its successive amendments

(referred to in Article 17)

Council Directive 78/659/EEC (OJ L 222, 14.8.1978, p. 1) (1)

Council Directive 91/692/EEC (OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p. 48) Annex I, point (c) only

Council Regulation (EC) No 807/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003,
p. 36)

Annex III, point 26 only

Part B

List of time-limits for transposition into national law

(referred to in Article 17)

Directive

78/659/EEC

91/692/EEC

Time-limit for transposition

20 July 1980

1 January 1993

(1) Directive 78/659/EEC has also been amended by the following unrepealed acts:

— the 1979 Act of Accession,
— the 1985 Act of Accession,
— the 1994 Act of Accession.

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ANNEX IV

CORRELATION TABLE

Directive 78/659/EEC

This Directive

Article 1(1) and (2)

Article 1(1) and (2)

Article 1(3), introductory phrase

Article 1(3), introductory phrase

Article 1(3), first indent

Article 1(3), second indent

Article 1(3)(a)

Article 1(3)(b)

Article 1(4), introductory phrase

Article 1(4), introductory phrase

Article 1(4), first indent

Article 1(4), second indent

Article 2(1)

Article 2(2)

Article 3

Article 4(1) and (2)

Article 4(3)

Article 5

Article 1(4)(a)

Article 1(4)(b)

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Article 2, second subparagraph

Article 3

Article 4(1)

Article 4(2)

Article 5

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Article 6(1), introductory phrase

Article 6(1), first indent

Article 6(1), second indent

Article 6(1), third indent

Article 6(2)

Article 7

Article 8

Article 9

Article 10

Article 11

Article 12

Article 13(1) and Article 14

Article 6(1)(a)

Article 6(1)(b)

Article 6(1)(c)

Article 6(2)

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Article 8

Article 9

Article 10

Article 11

Article 12

Article 13

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Article 14, first subparagraph, introductory phrase

Article 15, first subparagraph, first indent

Article 14, first subparagraph, point (a)

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Article 14, first subparagraph, point (b)

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Article 14, first subparagraph, point (c)

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Article 17(1)

Article 17(2)

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Annex I

Annex II

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Article 17

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Article 19

Annex I

Annex II

Annex III

Annex IV