The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003 (revoked)

River basin management plans U.K.

11.—(1) The [F1 appropriate agency] must by such date as the appropriate authority may direct prepare and submit to the appropriate authority a river basin management plan for each river basin district.

(2) A river basin management plan must—

(a) relate to such period as the appropriate authority directs; and

(b) include the information specified in the relevant provisions of the Directive [F2 and the EQS Directive] .

(3) The relevant provisions of the Directive for the purposes of this regulation are—

(a) Article 9(2) and (4) (recovery of the costs of water services);

(b) Annex II, point 1.3(vi) (exclusion of elements from the assessment of ecological status);

(c) the following provisions of Annex V—

(i) points 1.3 and 1.3.4 (confidence and precision in monitoring surface water);

(ii) point 2.4.1 (confidence and precision in monitoring groundwater); and

(iii) points 2.4.5 and 2.5 (presentation of monitoring results for groundwater); and

(d) Annex VII, Part A (elements to be covered in river basin management plans).

[F3 (3A) The relevant provisions of the EQS Directive for the purposes of this regulation are—

(a) Article 3(5) (information about monitoring and analysis, including alternative matrices);

(b) Article 4(2) (information relating to mixing zones);

(c) Article 5(4) (updated inventories).]

(4) The appropriate authority must ensure that each river basin management plan is—

(a) published by 22nd December 2009; and

(b) periodically reviewed and where appropriate updated, initially by 22nd December 2015 and thereafter by each sixth anniversary of that date.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 11(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 180 (with Sch. 7)

F2 Words in reg. 11(2)(b) inserted (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), regs. 1, 8(1)

F3 Reg. 11(3A) inserted (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), regs. 1, 8(2)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Regs. 10, 11 applied (with modifications) (2.1.2004) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria River Basin District) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3245), regs. 1(1), 5(1)(2) (as amended (3.3.2016) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria and Solway Tweed River Basin Districts) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/139), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 4)