PART 5 E+W Environmental objectives and programmes of measures

Environmental objectives: application of regulations 15 to 19 E+W

14.  Regulations 15 to 19 must be applied in a way that—

(a) does not permanently exclude or compromise the achievement of the environmental objectives set in relation to any other water body within the same river basin district;

(b) is not inconsistent with [F1 any other retained EU law];

(c) guarantees at least the same level of protection for bodies of water as the EU instruments repealed by Article 22 of the WFD.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 14(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 20(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)