ID:
policies-87
Name:
The Water (Prevention of Pollution) (Code of Practice) (Scotland) Order 2005
Issuing organisation:
Scotland
Geographical Scope:
Scotland
Type:
Legistrative
Scientific domain:
chemistry, biology
Type of water:
surface and groundwater, drinking water, wastewater and treated water
Water management focus:
Mangement, Monitoring
Parameter change rate assumption:
Water Quality - Nitogen and Phosporous
Description:
This Order approves the 2005 Code of Good Practice for the Prevention of Environmental Pollution from Agricultural Activity, replacing the 1997 Code and its supplements. The Code provides practical guidance to farmers on activities affecting water and promotes practices to prevent or minimize water pollution.
Status:
Effective
Effect Date:
11th-March-2005
Resource:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/63/contents/made
Recommendations:
Purpose of (a)giving practical guidance to persons engaged in agriculture with respect to activities that may affect controlled waters; and (b)promoting what appears to them to be desirable practices by such persons for avoiding or minimising the pollution of any such waters,
