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SCHEDULE 4MONITORING ETC

PART 1INTESTINAL ENTEROCOCCI AND ESCHERICHIA COLI

General provisions in relation to rules or reference methods of analysis

7.  The appropriate agency—

(a)must have regard to the guidelines on the handling of samples for microbiological analyses given in Annex V to the Bathing Water Directive; and

(b)may use such rules or reference methods of analysis as it considers are substantively equivalent to those specified in this Schedule, where the appropriate agency has notified the appropriate Minister giving details of such rules and methods and their equivalence.