The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229

25.—(1) Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229 establishing, pursuant to Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, the values of the Member State monitoring system classifications as a result of the intercalibration exercise is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 1—

(a) in paragraph 1, for “Member States shall use in their” substitute “the relevant person must use in its”;

(b) in paragraph 2—

(i) for “Member States shall” substitute “the relevant person must”;

(ii) for “use in their” substitute “use in its”;

(c) in paragraph 3, for “Member States” substitute “The relevant person”;

(d) after paragraph 3 insert—

“4.   In this Article—

(a) “relevant person” means—

(i) in relation to England and the Northumbria River Basin District, the Environment Agency (“the EA”) (subject to points (iii) and (v));

(ii) in relation to Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales (“NRW”) (subject to point (iii));

(iii) in relation to a river basin district which is partly in England and partly in Wales, the EA and NRW acting jointly;

(iv) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers (subject to point (v));

(v) in relation to the Solway Tweed River Basin District, the EA and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency acting jointly;

(vi) in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;

(b) references to Article 4(3) of, and Section 1.4.1(iii) of Annex 5 to, Directive 2000/60/EC are to be read as if any requirements imposed or discretion conferred by those provisions on a member State were imposed or conferred on the relevant person.”;

(e) omit Articles 2 and 3.