ID:
policies-74
Name:
The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria River Basin District) Regulations 2003
Issuing organisation:
Scotland
Geographical Scope:
Scotland and Great Britain (England and Wales)
Type:
Legistrative
Scientific domain:
physical states, chemistry, geology, and biology
Type of water:
surface and groundwater, drinking water, wastewater and treated water
Water management focus:
Mangement, Monitoring
Parameter change rate assumption:
Water Quality, Quanity
Description:
These Regulations implement the EU Water Framework Directive for the Northumbria River Basin District, which spans both England and Scotland. They adapt and apply existing England and Wales regulations and Scottish water legislation to ensure coordinated management of the district. The Regulations require comprehensive monitoring, economic analysis, identification of drinking water abstraction sources, and the establishment of a register of protected waters and areas.. The Directive is accessible by using the weblink http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en.
Status:
effective
Effect Date:
2nd-Jan-2004
Resource:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/3245/contents
Recommendations:
The Northumbria River Basin District (“the district”; identified by regulation 3) is partly in England and partly in Scotland because a number of tributaries of the River Tyne extend into Scotland. The Regulations therefore adapt and apply the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3242; “the principal Regulations”) and the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (2003 asp 3; “the Scottish Act”) in relation to the district to ensure that the Directive’s requirements are met for the district as a whole. The principal Regulations otherwise apply to river basin districts that are wholly in England, wholly in Wales, or partly in England and partly in Wales; the Scottish Act otherwise applies to river basin districts that are wholly in Scotland. The main elements of the principal Regulations are applied in relation to the Northumbria River Basin District. The Agency is therefore required to carry out detailed monitoring and analysis in relation to each river basin district, and the Secretary of State must ensure that appropriate economic analysis is also carried out . Certain waters used for the abstraction of drinking water must be identified and a register must be established of those waters and certain other protected areas.
