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Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)

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Article 18U.K.Information on monitoring of implementation

1.Without prejudice to Directives 2003/4/EC and 2007/2/EC, Member States, assisted by the EEA, shall:

(a)set up by 12 January 2029, and update every six years thereafter, a data set containing information on measures taken to improve access to and promote the use of water intended for human consumption in accordance with Article 16, and on the share of their population that has access to water intended for human consumption; this does not include water put into bottles or containers;

(b)set up by 12 July 2027, and update every six years thereafter, a data set containing information related to the risk assessment and risk management of the catchment areas for abstraction points carried out in accordance with Article 8, and set up by 12 January 2029, and update every six years thereafter, a data set containing information related to the risk assessment of domestic distribution systems carried out in accordance with Article 10, including the following elements:

(i)

information on catchment areas for abstraction points under point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 8(2);

(ii)

the results of the monitoring performed under point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 8(2) and point (b) of the first subparagraph of Article 10(1); and

(iii)

concise information on measures taken pursuant to Article 8(4) and Article 10(2) and (3), including information on the type of measures taken, and the progress made, under point (f) of Article 10(3);

(c)set up, and update annually thereafter, a data set containing monitoring results, in cases of exceedances of the parametric values set out in Parts A and B of Annex I, collected in accordance with Articles 9 and 13 and information about the remedial actions taken in accordance with Article 14;

(d)set up, and update annually thereafter, a data set containing information on incidents relating to water intended for human consumption that have caused a potential risk to human health, regardless of whether any failure to meet the parametric values occurred, that lasted for more than 10 consecutive days and that affected at least 1 000 people, including the causes of those incidents and remedial actions taken in accordance with Article 14; and

(e)set up, and update annually thereafter, a data set containing information on all derogations granted in accordance with Article 15(1), including the information provided for in Article 15(2).

Where possible, spatial data services as defined in point (4) of Article 3 of Directive 2007/2/EC shall be used to present the data sets referred to in the first subparagraph.

2.Member States shall ensure that the Commission, the EEA and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control have access to the data sets referred to in paragraph 1.

3.The EEA shall publish and update a Union-wide overview on the basis of the data collected by the Member States on a regular basis or upon request from the Commission.

The Union-wide overview shall include, as appropriate, indicators for outputs, results and the impact of this Directive, Union-wide overview maps and Member State overview reports.

4.The Commission may adopt implementing acts specifying the format of, and modalities for presenting, the information to be provided in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 3, including detailed requirements regarding the indicators, the Union-wide overview maps and the Member State overview reports referred to in paragraph 3. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 22.

5.Member States may derogate from this Article on any of the grounds referred to in Article 13(1) of Directive 2007/2/EC.

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