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

Regulation 2(2)

SCHEDULE 1 U.K. DIRECTIVE DEFINITIONS

“Aquifer” means a subsurface layer or layers of rock or other geological strata of sufficient porosity and permeability to allow either a significant flow of groundwater or the abstraction of significant quantities of groundwater.

“Body of groundwater” means a distinct volume of groundwater within an aquifer or aquifers.

“Body of surface water” means a discrete and significant element of surface water such as a lake, a reservoir, a stream, river or canal, part of a stream, river or canal, a transitional water or a stretch of coastal water.

“Coastal water” means surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured(1), extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters.

“Ecological status” is an expression of the quality of the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems associated with surface waters, classified in accordance with Annex V.

[F1 “Good surface water chemical status” means the chemical status required to meet the environmental objectives for surface waters established in Article 4(1)(a), that is the chemical status achieved by a body of surface water in which concentrations of pollutants do not exceed the environmental quality standards established in Annex IX and under Article 16(7), and under other relevant EU legislation setting environmental quality standards at EU level.]

“Groundwater” means all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil.

“Groundwater status” is the general expression of the status of a body of groundwater, determined by the poorer of its quantitative status and its chemical status.

“Inland water” means all standing and flowing water on the surface of the land, and all groundwater on the landward side of the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.

“Lake” means a body of standing inland surface water.

“Quantitative status” is an expression of the degree to which a body of groundwater is affected by direct and indirect abstractions.

“River” means a body of inland water flowing for the most part on the surface of the land but which may flow underground for part of its course.

“River basin” means the area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a sequence of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes into the sea at a single river mouth, estuary or delta.

“Surface water” means inland waters, except groundwater; transitional waters and coastal waters except in respect of chemical status for which it shall also include territorial waters.

“Transitional waters” are bodies of surface water in the vicinity of river mouths which are partly saline in character as a result of their proximity to coastal waters but which are substantially influenced by freshwater flows.

“Water services” means all services which provide, for households, public institutions or any economic activity:

(a)

abstraction, impoundment, storage, treatment and distribution of surface water or groundwater,

(b)

waste-water collection and treatment facilities which subsequently discharge into surface water.

“Water use” means water services together with any other activity identified under Article 5 and Annex II having a significant impact on the status of water.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 1 inserted (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), regs. 1, 11

Regulation 3(3)

SCHEDULE 2 U.K. ENACTMENTS IN RELATION TO WHICH DUTIES IN REGULATION 3 APPLY

PART 1 U.K. STATUTES

1.  Section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2). U.K.

2.  The Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975(3). U.K.

F2 3.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 2 para. 3 omitted (6.4.2011) by virtue of The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No.5, Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/556), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 2(2)(a)

[F3 3.]    [F4 Parts 2 and 2A of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (waste on land and contaminated land).] U.K.

Textual Amendments

F3 Sch. 2 paras. 3-5: Sch. 2 paras. 4-6 renumbered as Sch. 2 paras. 3-5 (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), regs. 1, 12(1)(a)

F4 Sch. 2 para. 4 substituted (6.4.2010 immediately after S.I. 2009/3381 comes into force) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), reg. 1(1), Sch. 26 para. 22(a) (with reg. 1(2))

[F3 4.]   Part 4 of the Water Industry Act 1991(4) (sewerage services). U.K.

Textual Amendments

F3 Sch. 2 paras. 3-5: Sch. 2 paras. 4-6 renumbered as Sch. 2 paras. 3-5 (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), regs. 1, 12(1)(a)

[F3 5.]   Parts 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 of the Water Resources Act 1991(5) (water resources management; control of pollution of water resources; flood defence; general control of fisheries; land and works powers; information provisions; miscellaneous and supplemental). U.K.

Textual Amendments

F3 Sch. 2 paras. 3-5: Sch. 2 paras. 4-6 renumbered as Sch. 2 paras. 3-5 (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), regs. 1, 12(1)(a)

[F5 6.   The Land Drainage Act 1991.] U.K.

Textual Amendments

F5 Sch. 2 para. 6 inserted (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), regs. 1, 12(1)(b)

7.  The Environment Act 1995. U.K.

[F6 8.]   [F7 Part 4 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (marine licensing).] U.K.

Textual Amendments

F6 Sch. 2 para. 8: Sch. 2 para. 7A renumbered as Sch. 2 para. 8 (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), regs. 1, 12(1)(c)

F7 Sch. 2 para. 7A inserted (6.4.2011) by The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (Commencement No.5, Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/556), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 2(2)(b)

[F8 9.   The Flood and Water Management Act 2010.] U.K.

Textual Amendments

F8 Sch. 2 para. 9 inserted (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), regs. 1, 12(1)(d)

[F9 PART 2 U.K. Subordinate instruments

Textual Amendments

F9 Sch. 2 Pt. 2 substituted (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), reg. 1, Sch.

10.   The Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989. U.K.

11.   The Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994. U.K.

F10 12.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F10 Sch. 2 para. 12 omitted (3.3.2016) by virtue of The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/138), regs. 1(c), 10

13.   The Water Protection Zone (River Dee Catchment) (Procedural and Other Provisions) Regulations 1999. U.K.

14.   The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003. U.K.

15.   The Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2003. U.K.

16.   The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (Wales) Regulations 2009. U.K.

17.   The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010(6). U.K.

18.   The Water Resources (Control of Pollution) (Silage, Slurry and Agricultural Fuel Oil) (England) Regulations 2010(7). U.K.

19.   The Water Resources (Control of Pollution) (Silage, Slurry and Agricultural Fuel Oil) (Wales) Regulations 2010(8). U.K.

20.   The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Establishment) Order 2012. U.K.

21.   The Bathing Water Regulations 2013. U.K.

22.   The Nitrate Pollution Prevention (Wales) Regulations 2013(9). U.K.

23.   The Keeping and Introduction of Fish (Wales) Regulations 2014. U.K.

24.   The Keeping and Introduction of Fish (England and River Esk Catchment Area) Regulations 2015(10). U.K.

25.   The Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015(11). U.K.

26.   The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) (England) Regulations 2015(12).] U.K.

(1)

The relevant baseline, for the purposes of this definition and the definition of “inland water”, is that from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured and is established by section 1 of the Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 49) and the Territorial Waters Order in Council (1965 III, p. 6452A).

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

1975 c. 51.

(4)

1991 c. 56.

(5)

1991 c. 57.

(6)

S.I. 1989/1263, amended by S.I. 1990/1880, 1996/593 and 2000/656.

(7)

S.I. 1989/2286.

(8)

S.I. 1991/324, amended by S.I. 1997/547.

(9)

S.I. 1992/337.

(10)

S.I. 1994/2841, amended by the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), section 120, Schedule 22, paragraph 233 and S.I. 2003/1788.

(11)

S.I. 1996/888, amended by S.I. 1998/1202, 2002/2297 (W.226) and 2614.

(12)

S.I. 1996/3001, amended, in relation to England, by S.I. 2000/3184 and, in relation to Wales, by S.I. 2001/3911.