ID:
policies-75
Name:
The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Solway Tweed River Basin District) Regulations 2004
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, coastal water, 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 Solway Tweed River Basin District, which spans England and Scotland. They apply and adapt existing England and Wales regulations and the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 to ensure coordinated, cross-border management. The Regulations establish a strategic planning framework to manage, protect, and improve water quality across the entire district. The Directive is accessible by using the weblink http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en.
Status:
effective
Effect Date:
10th Feb 2004
Resource:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/99/contents
Recommendations:
The Solway Tweed River Basin District (“the district”; identified in regulation is partly in England and partly in Scotland. These Regulations give effect to the Directive’s requirements in respect of the district as a whole, and do so in part by applying with modifications provisions of the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 (2003 asp 3; “the Scottish Act”). The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3242) make provision in relation to river basin districts that are wholly in England, wholly in Wales, or partly in England and partly in Wales; the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria River Basin District) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3245) do the same for the Northumbria River Basin District (which includes a small area of Scotland); and the Scottish Act otherwise applies in relation to river basin districts that are wholly in Scotland. These Regulations require a new strategic planning process to be established for the purposes of managing, protecting and improving the quality of water resources in the whole district. That process mirrors the process set out in the principal Regulations and in the Scottish Act, with adaptations to accommodate the district’s cross-border character.
