Policies abd Regulations

The catalogue identifies relevant open data sources, including Earth Observation (EO) satellite data, as well as environmental and socio-economic. These sources include local and remote sensors (such as satellite imagery, weather stations, and water quality monitoring devices), research outputs (such as census reports, land use maps, and economic indicators). Each resource is evaluated for quality, update frequency, accessibility, and any applicable legal constraints.

ID â–˛ Name Issuing organisation Geographical Scope Type Scientific domain Type of water Water management focus Parameter change rate assumption Description Status Effect Date Resource Recommendations
policies-61 Waters Protection Ordinance Switzerland Switzerland Legislative Physical states, chemistry, and biology Surface, groundwaters, wastewater, treated water Management, Monitoring Water quality This Ordinance supports the protection and sustainable use of surface and groundwater by setting ecological objectives, water quality standards, wastewater and sludge disposal rules, requirements for animal farms and spatial planning, residual flow maintenance, measures to prevent and remedy water pollution, and provisions for federal contributions Effective 28-Oct-98 https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1998/2863_2863_2863/en In Particular its aims: a. the ecological goals for waters; b. the requirements on water quality; c. the disposal of wastewater; d. the disposal of sewage sludge; e. the requirements for animal husbandry farms; f. the protection of waters in terms of area planning; g. the maintenance of appropriate residual flow; h. the prevention and remediation of other harmful effects on waters; i. the payment of federal contributions.
policies-62 Flood Protection Act Switzerland Switzerland Legislative Physical, Geology Surface Water, Groundwater Monitoring, Forecasting, Projection, Management Water quanity, Flow This law is intended to protect people and significant property from the damaging effects of water on the earth's surface, in particular from flooding, erosion and sediment deposits (flood protection). Effective 21-Jun-21 https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1993/234_234_234/de
policies-63 Energy Act Switzerland Switzerland Legislative Physical, Biology Suface Water monitoring, forecasting, projection, simulation, management Water quanity, Flow Energy Act (including Water rights) - this focus on Hydropower which is highly important for Switzerland Effective 20-Sep-16 https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/oc/2022/729/de
policies-64 Federal Act on Agriculture (Agriculture Act, AIA) Switzerland Switzerland Legislative Geology Surface Water, Groundwater Management Water Quality Supports: a. the following structural improvement measures in civil engineering: 1. Land reclamation, 2. Agricultural transport infrastructure, 3. Facilities and measures in the area of ​​soil improvement and water management, 4. Basic infrastructure in rural areas; Effective 29-Apr-98 BBl 2023 1527 - Bundesgesetz über die Landwirtschaft (Landwirtschaftsgesetz, LwG) | Fedlex
policies-65 Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 Scottish Parliament Scotland Legislative physical states, chemistry, geology, and biology surface and groundwater, drinking water, wastewater and treated water monitoring, management Water Quality, Quanity This Act provides for the protection of Scotland’s water environment, implements EU Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC, and amends existing water and sewerage legislation. It aims to prevent deterioration of aquatic, terrestrial, and wetland ecosystems; promote sustainable long-term water use; reduce and phase out harmful discharges and hazardous substances; reduce and prevent groundwater pollution; and mitigate floods and droughts. The Act seeks to ensure sufficient high-quality surface and groundwater, significantly reduce pollution, protect marine waters, and fulfil relevant international environmental obligations effective 5th March 2003 Modified 14th September 2015 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/3/contents In this Part “protection of the water environment” includes, in particular— (a)preventing further deterioration of, and protecting and enhancing, the status of aquatic ecosystems and, with regard to their water needs, terrestrial ecosystems and wetlands directly depending on those aquatic ecosystems, (b)promoting sustainable water use based on the long-term protection of available water resources, (c) aiming at enhancing protection and improvement of the aquatic environment through, amongst other things, specific measures for the progressive reduction of discharges, emissions and losses of priority substances and the cessation or phasing out of discharges, emissions and losses of the priority hazardous substances, (d)ensuring the progressive reduction of pollution of groundwater and preventing further pollution of it, and (e)contributing to mitigating the effects of floods and droughts, with a view to contributing to the achievement of the aims specified in subsection (3). (3)Those aims are— (a)the provision of a sufficient supply of good quality surface water and groundwater as needed for sustainable, balanced and equitable water use, (b)a significant reduction in pollution of groundwater, (c)the protection of territorial and other marine waters, and (d)achieving the objectives of international agreements, including those which aim to prevent and eliminate pollution of the marine environment, in relation to which measures are adopted under paragraph 1 of Article 16 of the Directive in pursuance of a proposal under paragraph 3 of that Article.
policies-66 Reservoirs (Scotland) Act 2011 Scotland Scotland Legislative physical states, chemistry, geology, and biology Surface, drinking water Monitoring, Management Flow Level, Volume An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about the regulation of the construction, alteration and management of certain reservoirs, in particular in relation to the risk of flooding from such reservoirs, for the repeal and replacement of the Reservoirs Act 1975, about offences to facilitate the achievement of the environmental objectives set out in river basin management plans; and for connected purposes. Effective 12-Apr-11 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2011/9/contents
policies-67 The Water Environment (Controlled Activities) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 Scotland Scotland Legislative Chemical surface and groundwater, drinking water, wastewater and treated water Mangement, Monitoring Water Pollutants: Organohalogen compounds and substances which may form such compounds in the aquatic environment. 2. Organophosphorous compounds. 3. Organotin compounds. 4. Substances and preparations, with carcinogenic or mutagenic properties or properties which may affect steroidogenic, thyroid, reproduction or other endocrine-related functions 5. Persistent hydrocarbons and persistent and bioaccumulable organic toxic substances. 6. Cyanides. 7. Metals and their compounds. 8. Arsenic and its compounds. 9. Biocides and plant protection products. 10. Materials in suspension. 11. Substances which contribute to eutrophication (in particular, nitrates and phosphates). 12. biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), and chemical oxygen demand (COD) etc.). These Regulations, made under the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003, implement key requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive and related groundwater and water quality directives. They establish a regulatory framework for protecting and sustainably managing the water environment by controlling activities that may affect surface water and groundwater. The Regulations set out a system of authorisations administered by SEPA, including general binding rules, registrations, and licences; procedures for applications, consultations, decisions, variations, and appeals; and powers for enforcement, monitoring, information gathering, and public registers. They also provide for offences, penalties, and remediation, replace the 2005 Controlled Activities Regulations, and integrate water protection with wider environmental and planning controls. Non Effective 31/03/2011 - 01/11/2025 Amended in 2013 and again in 2021 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/209/contents These Regulations apply to— (a)activities liable to cause pollution of the water environment; (b)abstraction of water from the water environment; (c)construction or alteration of impounding works in inland water (other than groundwater) or wetlands, (cc)operation of impounding works in surface water or wetlands]; (d)carrying out building or engineering works, or works other than those referred in paragraph (c) or (cc) (i)in inland water (other than groundwater) or wetlands; or (ii)in the vicinity of inland water or wetlands and having or likely to have a significant adverse impact on the water environment; (e)artificial recharge or augmentation of groundwater; (f)the direct or indirect discharge, and any activity likely to cause a direct or indirect discharge, into groundwater of any hazardous substance or other pollutant; and (g)any other activity which directly or indirectly has or is likely to have a significant adverse impact on the water environment. (2) These Regulations do not apply to the discharge of any reagent or chemical or particle tracer used in connection with any scientific experiment or survey in transitional waters or coastal waters
policies-68 Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 Scotland Scotland Legistatitve, Recommendations, Standards Drinking Water, Wastewater Monitoring, Mangement Water Quality This Act provides for the regulation and oversight of Scotland’s water industry by strengthening the role of the Water Industry Commissioner, establishing Water Customer Consultation Panels, regulating drinking water quality, creating Scottish Water and transferring functions from former water and sewerage authorities, amending water and sewerage law, and addressing related matters. Effective 14-Feb-02 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/3/contents An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make further provision in relation to the Water Industry Commissioner for Scotland and to provide for the establishment of Water Customer Consultation Panels; to make further provision in relation to the regulation of the quality of drinking water; to make provision for the establishment of Scottish Water, the transfer to Scottish Water of the functions of the water and sewerage authorities established by section 62(1) of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 and the dissolution of those authorities and in relation to the functions of Scottish Water; to make further amendments of the law relating to water and sewerage; and for connected purposes.
policies-69 The Public Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 2014 Scotland Scotland Legistative. Standards, Recommendations physical states, chemistry, and biology Drinking Water, Groundwater, Surfacewater Monitoring, Management Water Quality Scottish Water must annually designate water supply zones, each covering no more than 100,000 people and with no significant variations in water quality. Public water supplies must be wholesome, posing no risk to human health, meeting prescribed microbiological and chemical standards, and complying with nitrate and nitrite limits. Compliance is assessed at defined points depending on the supply method. Water transferred from service reservoirs is not deemed unwholesome for coliform presence if at least 95% of annual samples show no coliform bacteria. Effective 01-Jan-15 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2014/9780111024782/contents Water supply zones: (1) Before the beginning of each year in which it intends to supply water for human consumption purposes, Scottish Water must designate and name the areas within its area of supply that are to be water supply zones for that year. (2) A water supply zone may not comprise an area whose population immediately before the beginning of the year in question is estimated by Scottish Water to exceed 100,000. (3) A water supply zone may not comprise an area with significant variations in water quality. Wholesomeness: public water supplies The requirements are that the water— (a)does not contain— (i)any micro-organism; (ii)any substance; or (iii)any parasite, at a concentration or value which would (whether in conjunction with another parameter in the water or otherwise) constitute a potential danger to human health; (b)does not contain a parameter in highlighted in regulation at a concentration or value in excess of or, as the case may be, less than the prescribed concentration or value for that parameter; and (c)satisfies the formula “[nitrate]/50 + [nitrite]/3 ≤ 1”, where the square brackets signify the concentrations in mg/l for nitrate (NO3) and nitrite (NO2) respectively. (3) The point (“point of compliance”) at which the requirements in paragraph (2), in so far as they relate to a parameter in Table A or Table B, are to be complied with is— (a)in the case of water supplied from a tanker, the point at which the water emerges from the tanker; (b)in the case of water supplied in bottles or containers, the point at which the water first emerges from any bottle or container collected from a local distribution point; and (c)in any other case, the point or points specified for that parameter in Table A or Table B. (4) Water that— (a)is transferred from a service reservoir; (b)is intended for supply by Scottish Water for human consumption purposes; and (c)exceeds the prescribed concentration or value for coliform bacteria (item 3) in Table A, is not to be regarded as unwholesome for the purposes of Part VIA of the 1980 Act if, in at least 95% of samples taken in any year in which the reservoir in question is in use, coliforms were absent.
policies-70 Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 Scotland Scotland Legistrative Physical States Surface Water, Groundwater Monitoring, Management, projection, forecasting Water Quanity An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about the assessment and sustainable management of flood risks, including provision for implementing European Parliament and Council Directive 2007/60/EC; to make provision about local authorities' and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency's functions in relation to flood risk management; to amend the Reservoirs Act 1975; and for connected purposes. Effective 13-May-09 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/6/contents