The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017

River basin management plans: submission for approval E+W

30.—(1) As soon as an updated river basin management plan is submitted to the appropriate authority under regulation 28, the appropriate agency must—

(a) make copies of the plan accessible to the public free of charge through its website and at its principal office, 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) An updated plan submitted to the appropriate authority must be accompanied by—

(a) a statement of the steps taken by the appropriate agency to comply with regulation 29(1) to (4) (public participation), and

(b) a summary of the representations referred to in regulation 29(6) and of any changes made to the plan in light of those representations.

(3) If the appropriate authority considers in relation to a plan that further action should be taken by the appropriate agency under regulation 29(2) to (4), the appropriate authority may direct the appropriate agency—

(a) to take such further steps under those provisions as the appropriate authority may specify in the direction, and

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

(4) Where the appropriate authority gives a direction to the appropriate agency under paragraph (3), it must state its reasons for doing so.

(5) This regulation applies in relation to a river basin management plan resubmitted to the appropriate authority in accordance with a direction under paragraph (3) as it applies to the plan as originally submitted, with the modification that, for the reference in paragraph (3) to regulation 29(2) to (4), there is substituted a reference to this regulation.