a reference to one or more member States in a provision imposing an obligation or conferring a discretion on a member State or member States is to be read as a reference to the Department which, immediately before exit day, was responsible for the United Kingdom's compliance with that obligation or was able to exercise that discretion, so far as relating to Northern Ireland;

a reference to Article 13 of the Directive is to be read as if it were a reference to Article 13 except in so far as it gives rise to any obligation under Article 15 of that Directive;

any reference to “Community legislation” (other than a reference to existing Community legislation) is to be read as if it were a reference to retained EU law;

any reference to “existing Community legislation” or “existing legislation” is to be read as if it were a reference to Community legislation which was in force prior to 23rd October 2000;

the Directive is to be read as if the following modifications were made to it.

omit paragraphs 5,8 and 9.

in paragraph 8, the reference to “other Community environmental legislation” were a reference to retained EU law relating to the environment.

for “at Community level under Article 16” there were substituted “ by retained EU law transposing the EQS Directive ”;

for “Directive 80/778/EEC as amended by Directive 98/83/EC” there were substituted “ retained EU law transposing Directive 98/83/EC ”.

in subparagraph (a), for the words from “required to implement” to the end, substitute “ under retained EU law for the protection of water ”;

in subparagraph (j), in the fourth indent, for the words from “Directive” to the end there were substituted “ Chapter 3 of Part 1 of the Energy Act 2008 and other retained EU law which transposed Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of carbon dioxide ”;

paragraph 2 is to be read as if for “the Community” and “their territory” there were substituted “ Northern Ireland ”;

paragraph 3 is to be read as if for “the Community” and “the territory of the Member State concerned” there were substituted “ Northern Ireland ”.

paragraphs 1 and 2 were omitted;

in paragraph 3, for “submit” there were substituted “ produce ”.

in section 1.1, paragraph (vi) were omitted;

in section 2.3, the reference to “two or more Member States” were a reference to “Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland”.

in paragraph (2), the words “Community, national or local” were omitted.

references in tables 1.2.1 to 1.2.5 to Directive 91/414/EC, in each place they occur, were references to Regulation (EC) 1107/2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market;

references in tables 1.2.1 to 1.2.5 to Directive 98/8/EC, in each place they occur, were references to Regulation (EC) 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products;

in section 1.3.1, in the unnumbered paragraph headed “Selection of monitoring points”, the fourth indent (referring to “the Information Exchange Decision 77/795/EEC”) were omitted;

in section 1.3.5, the reference to “the Drinking Water Directive” were a reference to retained EU law which transposed Directive 98/83/EC on the quality of water intended for human consumption;

in section 1.4.3, for the words “Annex IX, Article 16 and under other relevant Community legislation” there were substituted “ Annex 1 to the Directive and under other relevant retained EU law ”;

in the table in section 2.3.2, in the column for “good status”, for “other relevant Community legislation in accordance with Article 17” there were substituted “ Directive 2006/118/EEC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration as last amended by Commission Directive 2014/80/EU ”;

in section 2.4.5, the words “Without prejudice to the Directives concerned” were omitted.

in point 7.1, for “implement Community legislation” there were substituted “ under retained EU law ”;

point 10 were omitted.

a reference to one or more member States in a provision imposing an obligation or conferring a discretion on a member State or member States is to be read as a reference to the Department;

any reference to “Community legislation” is to be read as if it were a reference to retained EU law;

the Groundwater Directive is to be read as if the following modifications were made to it.

in paragraph 3, the references to “two or more Member States” and “Member States concerned” are to be read as a reference to “Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland”;

paragraph 4 were omitted;

in paragraph 5, for “submitted” there were substituted “ produced ”.

in paragraph 1 the words “and established in accordance with Article 17 of that Directive” were omitted;

in footnote 1 to the table in point 1, for “Article 2 of Directive 91/414/EEC and Article 2 of Directive 98/8/EC” there were substituted “ Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products ”;

in point 2, for “Directive 91/414/EEC or Directive 98/8/EC” there were substituted “ Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market or Regulation (EC) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products ”.

for “submitted” there were substituted “ produced ”;

in point (c)(iii), for “at national, Union or” there were substituted “ in retained EU law or other applicable legislation, or at ”.

a reference to one or more member States in a provision imposing an obligation or conferring a discretion on a member State or member States is to be read as a reference to the Department;

the EQS Directive is to be read as if the following modifications were made to it.

a reference to a provision of Commission Directive 2009/90/EC laying down, pursuant to Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, technical specifications for chemical analysis and monitoring of water quality were modified in accordance with paragraph 2(a);

paragraph 5a were omitted.

in paragraph (2)(b), for “referred to in Directive 2008/1/EC” there were substituted “ under the Pollution, Prevention and Control (Industrial Emissions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 ”;

in paragraph (3), the reference to “Community law” were a reference to retained EU law.

references to Directive 91/414/EEC were read as references to Regulation (EC) 1107/2009;

paragraph 3 were omitted.

Article 6(1)(c) and (2);

Article 7a;

in Article 8a(1), the final sentence of the second subparagraph;

Article 8b(4);

Article 8c;

Article 13.