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.