The Bathing Water Regulations 2013

General duties U.K.

5.—(1) The Secretary of State, the Welsh Ministers, the Environment Agency and the Natural Resources Body for Wales must exercise their relevant functions in England and Wales—

(a) so as to ensure that, by the end of the bathing season in 2015, all bathing waters are classified under regulation 11 at least as “sufficient”;

(b) so as to take such realistic and proportionate measures as they each consider appropriate with a view to increasing the number of bathing waters classified under regulation 11 as “good” or “excellent”; and

(c) in all other respects, so as to ensure compliance with the requirements of the Bathing Water Directive.

(2) In this regulation, “relevant functions” means functions, so far as relevant, under the enactments listed in Schedule 2 (enactments) to the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003 M1 .

(3) The appropriate agency must promptly provide—

(a) to the appropriate Minister such information about the quality of bathing waters as the appropriate Minister may by notice reasonably require; and

(b) to a local authority such information about the quality of the bathing waters that it controls as that local authority may by notice reasonably require.

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2003/3242, as amended by: S.I. 2007/3538, 2008/1097, 2010/675, 2011/556, 2013/755 (W. 90). See also regulation 19(3) of these Regulations for further amendments to this instrument.