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

River basin management plan: submission for approval

9.—(1) As soon as any river basin management plan for the Solway Tweed River Basin District is submitted to the Ministers, the Agencies must—

(a) make copies of the plan accessible to the public free of charge through their websites and at the relevant offices; and

(b) publish a notice—

(i) stating the fact of submission; and

(ii) specifying the arrangements made for making copies of the plan accessible to the public.

(2) The Agencies must ensure that a plan submitted to the Ministers is accompanied by—

(a) a statement of the steps taken by the Agencies to comply with paragraph 8(1) and (so far as relating to the draft plan) paragraph 8(2) to (4); and

(b) a summary of the representations referred to in paragraph 8(6) and of any changes made to the plan in light of those representations.

(3) If the Ministers consider in relation to a plan that further action should be taken by the Agencies under paragraph 8(2) to (4), the Ministers may direct the Agencies—

(a) to take such further steps under those provisions as the Ministers may specify in the direction; and

(b) to resubmit the plan within such period, if any, as the Ministers may specify in the direction.

(4) Where the Ministers give a direction to the Agencies under sub-paragraph (3), they must state their reasons for doing so.

(5) This paragraph applies in relation to a river basin management plan resubmitted to the Ministers in accordance with a direction under sub-paragraph (3) as it applies to the plan as originally submitted, with the modification that, for the reference in sub-paragraph (3) to paragraph 8(2) to (4), there is substituted a reference to this paragraph.