The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Exercise of relevant functionsE+W

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6.  For the purposes of implementing the Water Framework Directive and the Groundwater 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.