The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004

River basin management plan

7.—(1) The Agencies must by such date as the Ministers may direct prepare and submit to the Ministers a river basin management plan for the Solway Tweed River Basin District.

(2) Any river basin management plan for the Solway Tweed River Basin District must—

(a) relate to such period as the Ministers direct; and

(b) include the information specified in the relevant provisions of the Directive.

(3) The relevant provisions of the Directive for the purposes of this paragraph 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).

(4) The Ministers must ensure that a river basin management plan for the Solway Tweed River Basin District approved under paragraph 10 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.