PART 4Amendment and revocation of EU decisions

Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229I125

1

Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229 establishing, pursuant to Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, the values of the Member State monitoring system classifications as a result of the intercalibration exercise is amended as follows.

2

In Article 1—

a

in paragraph 1, for “Member States shall use in their” substitute “ the relevant person must use in its ”;

b

in paragraph 2—

i

for “Member States shall” substitute “ the relevant person must ”;

ii

for “use in their” substitute “ use in its ”;

c

in paragraph 3, for “Member States” substitute “ The relevant person ”;

d

after paragraph 3 insert—

4

In this Article—

a

“relevant person” means—

i

in relation to England and the Northumbria River Basin District, the Environment Agency (“the EA”) (subject to points (iii) and (v));

ii

in relation to Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales (“NRW”) (subject to point (iii));

iii

in relation to a river basin district which is partly in England and partly in Wales, the EA and NRW acting jointly;

iv

in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers (subject to point (v));

v

in relation to the Solway Tweed River Basin District, the EA and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency acting jointly;

vi

in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;

b

references to Article 4(3) of, and Section 1.4.1(iii) of Annex 5 to, Directive 2000/60/EC are to be read as if any requirements imposed or discretion conferred by those provisions on a member State were imposed or conferred on the relevant person.

e

omit Articles 2 and 3.