SCHEDULE 22Groundwater activities

Exercise of relevant functions

6.

For the purposes of implementing the Groundwater Directive, the Water Framework Directive and the Groundwater Daughter Directive, the regulator must, in exercising its relevant functions, take all necessary measures—

(a)

to prevent the input of any hazardous substance to groundwater; and

(b)

to limit the input of non-hazardous pollutants to groundwater so as to ensure that such inputs do not cause pollution of groundwater.