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

Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229 U.K.

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.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 25 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(1)