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These Regulations amend the Water Environment (River Basin Management Planning: Further Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 (“the 2013 Regulations”) and the Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 to further protect the water environment.
Regulation 2 amends Parts 1 and 2 of the 2013 Regulations to take account of amendments made to Directive 2000/60/EC (“the Water Framework Directive”) as last amended by Commission Directive 2014/101/EU.
Regulation 3 amends Part 3 of the 2013 Regulations to take account of amendments made to Directive 2008/105/EC (“the Priority Substances Directive”) by Directive 2013/39/EU.
Regulation 4 amends Part 4 of the 2013 Regulations to take account of amendments made to Directive 2006/118/EC (“the Groundwater Directive”) by Commission Directive 2014/80/EU.
Regulation 5 amends the Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 to take account of the amendments made to the Water Framework Directive, the Priority Substances Directive and the Groundwater Directive including by, in particular, Directive 2013/39/EU, Commission Directive 2014/80/EU and Commission Directive 2014/101/EU.
Regulation 6 ensures that existing environmental quality standards for priority substances continue to apply until those standards in the 2013 Regulations are revised by virtue of these Regulations.
Regulation 7 revokes the Water Environment (Groundwater and Priority Substances) (Scotland) Regulations 2009.
The powers in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 are exercised so far as may be necessary (to supplement the other powers cited) for the purposes of implementing, or enabling the implementation of, obligations created or arising by or under the Water Framework Directive (as last amended), the Priority Substances Directive (as amended) and the Groundwater Directive (as amended), and for the purposes of dealing with matters arising out of or related to any such obligations. In particular, the powers are cited to enable provision to be made in regulation 5 to amend the 2013 Regulations and in regulation 7 to revoke the Water Environment (Groundwater and Priority Substances) (Scotland) Regulations 2009.
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