PART 4Monitoring
Monitoring programmes11
1
The appropriate agency must establish and keep under review programmes for monitoring water status in order to establish a coherent and comprehensive overview of water status within each river basin district.
2
In relation to surface water, the monitoring programme must cover—
a
the volume and level or rate of flow to the extent relevant to ecological and chemical status and ecological potential, and
b
ecological and chemical status and ecological potential.
3
In relation to groundwater, the monitoring programme must cover chemical and quantitative status.
4
In relation to protected areas, the monitoring programme must—
a
cover any supplementary monitoring required by F1retained EU law under which the area is protected;
b
provide for the monitoring of each drinking water protected area which provides on average more than 100m³ per day of drinking water intended for human consumption;
c
for each shellfish water protected area, enable a reliable assessment to be made of whether the objectives in regulation 13(4) have been or will be achieved.
5
The monitoring programme must comply with the following provisions of Annex V to the WFD—
a
points 1.3 to 1.3.4 and 1.3.6 (monitoring of ecological status, chemical status and ecological potential for surface waters);
b
point 1.3.5 (monitoring of drinking water abstraction points and habitats and species protection areas);
c
points F21.4.1 (excluding points (iv) to (ix)), 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 (classification and presentation of ecological status, chemical status and ecological potential);
d
points 2.2 to 2.2.4 (monitoring of groundwater quantitative status);
e
points 2.4 to 2.4.4 (monitoring of groundwater chemical status);
f
points 2.4.5 and 2.5 (interpretation and presentation of groundwater status).
F35A
A requirement in any of the provisions of Annex 5 listed in paragraph (5) to provide a map is to be read (where this is not otherwise specified) as a requirement to include the map in the relevant river basin management plan.
6
By 22nd December 2018, the appropriate agency must establish, for each river basin district, a monitoring programme in respect of substances 34 to 45 in the table of priority substances.